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The Rape of Ma Bell: The Criminal Wrecking of the Best Telephone System in the World

This is the story of the unwarranted and criminal dismantling of a company which offered the American people the best telephone service in the world. As a result of actions by the Federal government bureaucracy, the world's largest company has been dismembered, assets deliberately destroyed, our national defense weakened, and our international economic position damaged-a debacle that has cost the American public as much as $800 billion dollars in the last 20 years. Parts of this story have been told by corporate executives, lawyers, economists and public officials, each with different viewpoints and emphases. Little has been heard from telephone engineers-who built, operated, and, under court orders, dismantled this communications network. This book is written by two such engineers, whose combined careers span half the time between Bell's invention and the present, and who worked in the mainstream of the events described. The Rape of Ma Bell explores the past, present and future of our nation's communications system. It describes the telephone's invention and early history, and life in the Bell System as it was a decade ago, then traces the events-crimes according to many-of almost 20 years that led to Bell's demise. It deals as well with the chaotic and costly situation that resulted and how this has affected the telecommunications industry, the telephone customer, the national defense and our international position. And it looks at the fabulous future available to modern technology and offers suggestions as to what steps should be taken in light of what has already happened. The authors have also provided a short course for the layman in a few of the main concepts underlying modern communications technology. Constantine Raymond Kraus has spent much of his working life as an engineer and administrator with the Bell System. He has been intimately connected with every facet of communications. When he retired from Bell, he founded and headed Consulting Communications Engineers, Inc., of Villanova, bringing together a brain trust of 200 retired scientists and engineers representing 6,000 years of experience and 500 patents. The 20-year-old company has worked for both government and industry. Mr. Kraus also edits the CCE Newsletter which has a wide circulation in the industry. Alfred W. Duerig was employed by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania for thirty-seven years; during the last seventeen he headed the engineering department. Before that he served in the United States Navy in various communications positions. He is …