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<blockquote data-quote="ImWaitingForTheDay" data-source="post: 1538605" data-attributes="member: 48031"><p>For nearly ONE-HUNDRED YEARS, there was a telephone monopoly. You literally could not own a phone or attach your own equipent to the phone lines. You had to rent your phone monthly.</p><p></p><p>It was only due to government regulation that the innovations that led to cell phones etc. - and in fact THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT, came into being.</p><p></p><p>First with the Carterphone decision in the 60s which allowed non-AT&T equipment to be hooked to the lines, to the Sprint decision later that decade which allowed competing long-distance, and finally to the government mandate breakup of AT&T in the early 1980s.</p><p></p><p>Before this, you could not attach anything to the phone lines that AT&T didn't rent to you. For example - THE MODEM. The thing that made the internet as a widespread phenomenon take off. And of course, competing carriers such as CELL PHONE CARRIERS.</p><p></p><p>WITHOUT government intervention and regulation, we would still have ONE phone company with high prices, no internet, and we'd be RENTING WIRED phones with rotary and touch-tone dials.</p><p></p><p>Brownys statements are not only confused, it's the direct opposite of reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ImWaitingForTheDay, post: 1538605, member: 48031"] For nearly ONE-HUNDRED YEARS, there was a telephone monopoly. You literally could not own a phone or attach your own equipent to the phone lines. You had to rent your phone monthly. It was only due to government regulation that the innovations that led to cell phones etc. - and in fact THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT, came into being. First with the Carterphone decision in the 60s which allowed non-AT&T equipment to be hooked to the lines, to the Sprint decision later that decade which allowed competing long-distance, and finally to the government mandate breakup of AT&T in the early 1980s. Before this, you could not attach anything to the phone lines that AT&T didn't rent to you. For example - THE MODEM. The thing that made the internet as a widespread phenomenon take off. And of course, competing carriers such as CELL PHONE CARRIERS. WITHOUT government intervention and regulation, we would still have ONE phone company with high prices, no internet, and we'd be RENTING WIRED phones with rotary and touch-tone dials. Brownys statements are not only confused, it's the direct opposite of reality. [/QUOTE]
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