[SC-Help] Re: Anyone here using SBC - West Coast ?

[N. Miller]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:25:38 +0000 (UTC), JohnL wrote:

> "WazoO" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in news:ddu6as$ivb$1
> @news.spamcop.net:

>> The only "Borg" I'm familiar with is Borgholio ... lots
>> of posts, tho noting that SBC wasn't the domain in
>> the last post I snagged that IP from .. oh well ...

> Yep, right Borg. ;-)
> 
> From what I understand, SBC brought Pac Bell?
> 
> He's been trying to connect all day apparently.

Well, somebody brought Pac Bell someplace...

SBC is actually a fairly new company. After the breakup of AT&T, one of the
"Baby Bells" was called, "Southwestern Bell Telephone". I am not sure which
company they bought first, but they did go on a buying spree. Along the
way, they changed the name to just plain SBC. Their purchases include:

Ameritech Telephone (ameritech.net)
Pacific Telesys (nvbell.net, pacbell.net)
Southern New England Telephone (snet.net)
Prodigy (flash.net, prodigy.net, and wans.net)

They retired Southwestern Bell Telephone (swbell.net) when they created SBC
(sbcglobal.net).

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