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Why AT&T Missed the Next Big Thing

The wonderful thing about the Web is that you can find anything there, whether it's true or not. Case in point: The legend that in 1984, AT&T "decided not to invest in cellular telephony, believing that the market wouldn't support more than a million cellular handsets by 2000." That's repeated in an opinion column on computerworld.com today. (It may also be in the print edition; my copy hasn't arrived yet.)

It makes a great story of corporate blindness, doesn't it? Creaky old AT&T, the giant monopoly in landline telephones, can't see the potential in these newfangled wireless phones, and so cedes the market for the Next Big Thing to upstarts who plow Ma Bell under. I think I've heard a half-dozen different pundits toss off this story in the past year.

Just one problem: It's not true. Not even a little bit. Why AT&T Missed the Next Big Thing | Computerworld Blogs

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