blows my mind that the Bell System employed 1m+ individuals…

Twetch ·

blows my mind that the Bell System employed 1m+ individuals when it was broken up and is *now* owned by Crown Castle which employs 4,500

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Twetch ·

Automation? Coordination?

Twetch ·

They pulled some seriously sketchy stuff w/ the transfer of assets to Crown Castle, but also automation.

Twetch ·

Or neglect because they cut jobs they should have kept?

Twetch ·

They use subpar Inferno powered all digital switches in some stations. Others are still too expensive to change out.

Twetch ·

Oh no they divested the value of the company through a backdoor to bypass regulators and then named it such to say "who gonna stop me".