I worry about us…  As I read through AT&T’s latest “U-verse”
agreement I shake my head in genuine worry.  At home we’ve
finally traded in our DSL for U-verse, which of course is wise
when you consider the volume and speed we enjoy these days. 
Then I noticed at the bottom of the agreement “U-verse price
includes 250 GB of data per month”… oh groan.  I may hear “what,
is that not enough”?  Groan again…  You see, I distinctly
remember starting my career just as Judge Harold Greene presided
over the biggest anti-trust settlement in history.  In
1984 (from a 1982 modified final judgment) AT&T was forced to
divest itself of local switching facilities and operate only in
the long distance space.  The so called 7 “RBOCs” or “Regional
Bell Operating companies” all of a sudden had their own little
monopoly positions in their market area.  The remaining “AT&T”
was left to compete in interstate long distance markets in what
was considered a non monopoly competitive landscape. 
Indeed,”Southwestern Bell” controlled and e