Battle lines drawn over manufacture of telecommunications equipment. (American Telegraph and Telephone Co. opposes new law allowing Regional Bell companies to manufacture telecommunication equipment)(Focus: Telecommunicaitons and Business Products) From: Fairfield County Business Journal | Date: June 10, 1991| Author: Albon, Bob | COPYRIGHT 1991 Westfair Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Battle lines drawn over manufacture of telecommunications equipment

WASHINGTON -- Seven years after a court decree broke up the old Bell Telephone system into seven regional phone companies, the so-called Baby Bells may be near to the elimination of one of the three restrictions set by the court with the breakup -- manufacturing telecommunications equipment.

The Senate has a bill before it that would allow the regional phone companies, including White Plains, N....