atoscano@attmail.com (05/16/91)
The MFJ stipulates that the Bell Operating Companies and AT&T may share facilities for up to eight years after divestiture. Those eight years will expire in a few months. What facilities, if any, are still "shared" today? Does "Shared Facilities" include the "Condominium Arrangements" created to split up wire center buildings containing both local (end office) and toll switches? Examples which come to mind: Austin-Greenwood, Chicago-Canal, San Antonio-Capitol. Will AT&T have to move out of such buildings by the end of the year? A Alan Toscano Voice: +1 713 236 6616 AT&T Mail: atoscano <atoscano@attmail.com> Telex (UT): 156232556 CIS: 73300,217 [Moderator's Note: The way I have heard it is they will remain as they are but will no longer be legally 'sharing'. In the past, all floor space and facilities was owned in common. Now, both the LEC and AT&T are tenants in a 'condominium-style' building where each separately owns their own floor space and equipment, and they do not share their own floor space and equipment with anyone. Both are members of an association which owns the building and the common areas. Nothing in the MFJ said the two could not be tenants in the same condominium building. They will all still use the same restroom, elevator, and cafeteria facilities, which are owned by the association, rather than AT&T or the LEC individually. I suspect both entities are smart enough to keep their use of the common facilities at arms-length to appease the judge, bless his soul ... or does His Honor presume that two executives, one from the LEC and one from AT&T, will spend quality time together each day seated in ajoining stalls in the men's room plotting to put Sprint out of business, using the walls to write secret inter-company memos to each other? PAT]