johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (07/17/90)
Since I haven't seen any other references to this here:
About a week ago, AT&T agreed to buy Western Union's Telex and
Easylink services. AT&T plans to merge Easylink and AT&T Mail,
although the details are vague. (Easylink has more subscribers, but
it has an incredibly antique user interface and is reputed to run on
aging Sperry mainframes.) It's not clear whether AT&T plans to fix up
WU's decrepit Telex service or kill it off in favor of e-mail
gateways. It also wasn't clear what happens to WU's Telegram and
Mailgram services.
Most Telecom readers will note the irony here, since the feds forced
AT&T to sell WU their TWX service about twenty years ago.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us,
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