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Lucent Technologies
Because AT&T Corporation wanted to become a big player in the booming market for outsourcing computer services, it set up Lucent Technologies to manage corporate clients' worldwide computer networks. Lucent Technologies assists corporations in global network and computer management by drawing on AT&T's worldwide digital network and its computer hardware and software businesses. It also relies on the expertise of technicians at Bell Laboratories.
-Refer to Lucent Technologies.Consumers utilizing the First National Bank of Chicago to purchase U.S.Treasury bonds will affect the demand for and use of the AT&T network computer system capabilities.This is called:

• A) joint demand
• B) inelastic demand
• C) derived demand
• D) fluctuating demand
• E) elastic demand

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