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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:53:40 -0700
- From: Jeff Sicherman <sichermn@csulb.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Deterioration of POTS
- Message-ID: <telecom12.650.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <telecom12.649.1@eecs.nwu.edu> mdw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
- (mark.d.wuest) writes:
-
- > I think another side effect of the break-up is the shift away from
- > pure research at Bellcore. They're laying off more people as I type.
- > Bell Labs is rumored to be headed toward a market-driven approach to
- > development (but *that* rumor's been flying around for awhile now ...).
- > Who know what the end result will be?
-
- I'm not sure from the tone of this post whether there's any sadness
- and nostalgia for the 'good old days' in it. If there is, it's not
- very to me that much of that research found it's way into the actual
- domestic phone system under the pre-breakup regime. That's not to say
- that they weren't doing great science or serving a valuable societal
- function, but was it appropriate to be funded by our payments to a
- regulated monopoly when the results weren't generally and aggressively
- applied to the improvement of service?
-
- > OTOH, as American business (hopefully) shifts more toward long-term
- > goals (thinking in terms of 10 years instead of quarters), the
- > "market" may demand more pure research. Most anyone would agree that
- > Japan is doing more pure research now than ever before ...
-
- Probably, but what is more outrageous and self-defeating for
- ourselves is that they are buying semi-exclusive access to the results
- of American university research on the cheap by partially funding such
- research at institutions which are hungry for the money. That's OK,
- they'll make more products based upon the technology and sell it back
- to us. Now tell me, where is this long-term thinking really happening
- in the U.S.?
-
-
- Jeff Sicherman
-
-