Click! Ma Is Ringing Off

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The breakup of giant AT&T sets the stage for a telecommunications upheaval

Time is running out for the largest company on earth. Ending too is a long era of inexpensive phone service that Americans have taken for granted. But just on the horizon, heralding its arrival with the attention-getting power of a jillion jangling telephones, is a revolution in telecommunications. Propelled by both marketing and technology, the coming changes will rank second in importance only to the establishment of the U.S. telephone system itself, acknowledged as the world's best.

It all starts happening on New Year's...

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