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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (5789)	2/1/1999 8:15:00 PM
From: Paul K	Respond to of 14778

Well, GTE used to own part of Sprint... From 'The History of the World according to Sprint': sprint.com "...In 1991 United Telecom completed its acquisition of Sprint purchasing GTE's remaining 19.9% share of the company. United Telecom had acquired controlling interest in Sprint in 1989. Shortly after the acquisition, the parent company changed its name from United Telecommunications to become Sprint Corporation, a first step toward enabling all the company's business units to benefit from the widely recognized Sprint brand..." So GTE now has... bbn.com BBN's interesting Internet TimeLine: bbn.com