johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (05/26/90)
In article <8209@accuvax.nwu.edu> Our Moderator writes: > 8. Texas Air That's very peculiar. I'd expect that the telecom needs of an airline would be partly hooking up all of their own offices and terminals, but even more hooking up all of the travel agencies that subscribe to their CRS. American's Sabre and United's Apollo are much more widely used than is Texas Air's System One, and American and United are enormous airlines in their own right. (United sold Apollo to a nominally separate organization called Covia, but I'd have thought they'd take the telecom with them.) It's hard to believe that Texas Air uses more telecom than either AMR or UAL. > 15. BellSouth > 89. US West I thought the RBOCs were roughly the same size. Admittedly, Bell South has bought a lot of cellular operators outside their own area, but it's hard to imagine a disparity like this. There's no doubt that all of the organizations on the list are huge telecom users, but I wouldn't give much credence to the ranking. Regards, John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl