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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1282950, member: 22143&quot;]This simply isn&#039;t true.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t even true in the days of Ma Bell.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nortel is a primary example of an equipment supplier who supplied equipment over the indigenous in house supplier Western Electric/Bell Labs (now Acatel/Lucent) because they had a better product and numerous anti-trust and post MaBell legislation prevented it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost all large corporations have internal rules about single source suppliers for critical components lest they get held hostage by those very companies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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