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I have a working coin telephone sitting on the wall outside my office. 
It was presented to my Dad when he retired from AT&T.

> It still works. She also has a cell phone 
> that she uses, calling cards, and a few other new gismos. AT&T is 
> where it is today because of a 1984 ruling by Judge Green.

The problem was that it was not equitable.  Sure, folks had to be given 
a chance to even the playing field, but once that happened, they never 
returned it to true competition.  I think it was really a combination of 
being ahead of the technology in many cases, look at cellular.  The Labs 
created the technology, but they couldn't get anyone to buy into.  Now 
everyone has a cell phone.

They also made some stupid mistakes.  All the shuffling around the 
various businesses (cell, local, ld, cable..)  They spent so much time 
trying to organize this stuff, they missed out on competing where they 
could.

> Now if they 
> would do the same thing for cable companies, the prices might drop 
> there also.

Amen.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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