Muni Fiber and Politics

[LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)]

On 7/23/2014 10:24 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Funny story.  There are a huge number of independent telcos in Iowa. The
> reason: early on, farmers discovered that you could turn pairs of barbed
> wired strands into party lines.  Things developed from there.

In California in the 1960s Pacific had tariffs for un-francised 
territories for "toll stations" and "farmer lines"--the later often 
terminating at a small cord board.

I recall taking a clearance from a repairman as "somebody left the gate 
open".

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