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said by history lesson :
Check your history books.
Bell only built parts of the network where the Feds gave them money to (ie: rural areas).
The rest of it was through the initial IPO and subsequent 130+ years of revenue.
Excuse me ?! YOU should be the one to go back and read the history books. Bell laid out their analog POTS lines with government $$. Period.
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| Seriously? Did you even bother using Google first before posting a reply before I bitch slap you in front of everyone?
Ok, if you insist:
Detailed history of Bell: »www.bce.ca/en/aboutbce/history/index.php
Copy of 1880 Federal Charter:
»www.bce.ca/en/aboutbce/history/index.php
"By the end of 1880, Sise had purchased the existing telephone interests in Canada, including those of The Dominion Telegraph Company and The Montreal Telegraph Company. The company offered telephone service in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba and had interests in British Columbia."
"The telephone's success rested on creating a network. In the spring of 1881, the Company constructed the first "long-distance" line in Canada between Toronto and Hamilton. The General Manager was so committed to the project that he advanced the funds from his personal savings to ensure its completion."
"Would-be competitors pounced on the article of the law requiring that all patented products must be manufactured in the country. Sise argued that he was complying with this provision. The government disagreed and on January 24, 1885, voided the Bell patent, ending the Company's exclusive right to manufacture and distribute the telephone."
Enjoy the full article.
Like I said before, the myth that Bell's network was built with taxpayer money is mostly false. I say mostly because in typical Fed fashion, when no one wants to provide a city with a service, they either create a Crown Corp or pay an existing company to provide the service instead. Which is what happened in some cities across Canada.
However, as you can see from the link I provided, Bell got it's initial funding from it's IPO and bought other phone companies in order to expand, then ended up selling all those outside Ontario and Quebec years later when they were strapped for cash.
I hope you enjoyed today's lesson. Class dismissed. | |
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| said by history lesson :
"By the end of 1880, Sise had purchased the existing telephone interests in Canada, including those of The Dominion Telegraph Company and The Montreal Telegraph Company. The company offered telephone service in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba and had interests in British Columbia."
You know, another 2 seconds work and you could have found out that Dominion Telegraph was a department of Public Works organization. They had wire strung all over Canada, up to the Yukon.
Public works.
Government funded. Taxpayer money.
SO, you've managed to prove that from day one, Bell Canada was using taxpayer provided facilities.
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The National Bell Telephone Company of Boston eventually took the patent off Melville Bell's hands. The company enlisted the aid of Hugh C. Baker, head of the Hamilton District Telegraph Company, to apply for a charter from the Canadian Parliament. On April 29, 1880, a special act of Parliament incorporated the Bell Telephone Company of Canada.
A Charter from whom? Oh yes...the Canadian Parliament. This is that little piece of paper that give Bell the right to string wires all over public land. What other companies have that right? Um...hint: none of the independant ISPs.
Here's another beauty:
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In 1990, however, the CRTC ruled that companies could buy time on private telephone lines in bulk from the phone companies and resell it at a discount. Within two years, the resellers had captured two to four percent of the phone companies' long-distance business. In 1992 the CRTC was expected to institute even greater changes in the long-distance market, such as allowing companies to resell discount packages like WATS. Resellers, however, wanted the CRTC to go further and allow them to own their own lines, an idea Bell Canada was fighting. Canadian Business quoted Bell Chairman Jean Monty as saying that '[the presence of resale means Canada already enjoys] a workable balance between competition and monopoly.'
Why don't we, as ISP's build out our own wire? Read that. | |
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| As far as I know, to become Incorporated you still need some level of government to issue it, so your leap of faith between Bell getting a Charter issued by the Fed as an indication of being "funded" by the Fed is completely wrong.
And although Dominion Telegraph Co was a division of the Government at the time, Bell bought them after the fact.
You and others make it sound as if Bell was 100% funded and built it's network with taxpayer money which is a complete misnomer and false. | |
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| You (Deadpool?) and TK make it sound as if Bell was 100% funded and built using private funds. It wasn't. Not even close.
You (Deadpool?) and TK make it sound as if Bell did not receive and abuse exclusive access to public works and rights of way. Absolutely false.
The well-known BCE "about us" link is hardly a source. | |
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