OT&T (Makko Oko)

OT&T Inc.

Type	Public Company
Industry	Telecommunications Technology
Founders	Hoda Lavangia
Area served	Makko Oko
Website	ott.com.mk

OT&T Inc. (with OT&T being an abbreviation of its former name, Oko Telephone and Telegraph Company) is a publicly-traded, state-authorized, telecommunications company in the Empire of Makko Oko. It is the nation's largest wireless carrier and the world's largest corporation by holdings and assets. During the remainder of the 20th century, OT&T held an absolute monopoly over the phone industry, and, when it expanded into television in the early 1980's, held a virtual monopoly over that. OT&T's position of being a monopoly would not be challenged until the early 2000's when a change in public opinion and government policy led to directed attacks against the company, aiming to break them up or destroy them if failing. The government's case fell on deaf ears after the courts sided with OT&T, and then OT&T countersued and sought an injunction against the current government interfering with corporate affairs, which the courts approved. Up to 2027, OT&T has never successfully been broken up or taken down, however the monopoly they had on the phone industry has dwindled in recent years with more fierce competition.

History

OT&T was started by Hoda Lavangia, who was a migrant from the neighboring nation of Liberto-Ancapistan. At the Republic's establishment, everything was in the old way of life, much like LA once was, however, LA had established phone communications and the telegraph back in the late 50's and early 60's. Hoda had been an engineer on some of the groundbreaking discoveries that led to this form of communication being established. It was founded as Lavangia Systems Makko Oko Inc. on July 17th, 1968 as a subsidiary of the main domestic company, Lavangia Systems, located in LA. Makko Oko was the first nation that Lavangia expanded to, and the government itself was rather excited by the prospect of having a working communications infrastructure, being limited to merely letters and word of mouth.

The government was relatively hands-off because they didn't know much about the developments that had occurred, but only what they had been told. Hoda had a plan to network the entire continent of Elisia and allow communication to and from any nation on the continent quicker than a telegraph, which was also lacking in Makko Oko. This development was quite a challenge for Hoda as LA had already implemented a national telegraph infrastructure while Makko Oko had none. Delays upon delays plagued even the first deployments and when the first exchanges came online, they were riddled with instability and the inability to dial any outside nation or outside exchange. These problems would plague the success of the company and put the future of the continent-wide network in jeopardy. Hoda would be unable to resolve them until the period of 1972-1973 when local companies, miners and the elite who had traveled abroad had poured money into advancing their quality of life at home.