AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

195 BROADWAY. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10007

AREA CODE 212 393-4383

K.P.WOooOD
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIQENT

August 30, 1968

Professor Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford Medical Center

Palo Alto, California 9430/}

Dear Sir:

Yesterday we generated some more information
in an area of your interest. I've attached the press
kit and a Wall Street Jovrnal clipping which gives
some material from the question and answer session,

 

I needed. no documentation to recognize your
eredentials in communications, The support, though,
was imoressive and I sent it to our data group. They
hope to offer you the opportunity to particivate in a
future product trial that is relevant to your data
needs,

You're right: I'm not in close accord with
disengaging "some elements of the communication
industry, such as bulk transmission for large users...
Our proposal for a space-earth communications system
detailed some of the reasons why I believe the best
and most economical service lies in a network carrying
all forms of communication. This position, of course,
does not preclude competition,

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Sincerely,
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**Indeed yes! You were reading my mind: I was just about to send you
the clipping with a request for just that same material,
In my view, your radical new policy vis-a-vis customer i> terfaces
Attachments reflects a larze part of what I was advovating,
Congratulations, and more power to you for it.

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

Area Code 415
321-1200

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS

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p.s. May I ask your help to answer a question in technical economics.

Exactly what do you market to an individual customer?

Presumably, if I attempt a long-distance call and find the line too noisy
to be useful, the service would not be chargeable. Do your trriffs
define the service that you warrant to a €ustomer? This point will ob-
viously become more and more important with the increasing use of com-
munications lines for data services.

I appréciate your prompt resp6nsiveness to what may be an irritating
inquiry.

LT. J. P, KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE, DEDICATED TO RESEARCH IN MENTAL RETARDATION
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