| Didn't AT&T lose this battle 20 years ago? I seem to recall that before 1984, the telco charged extra for each phone extension in the house. Phones came in black or beige; a new feature like TouchTone(tm) came along once every 20 years; and the phones were hardwired directly into the wall.
At the time of the divestiture, the gov't threw out this closed-system format and mandated (a) RJ-11 jacks and (b) no extra charges for hooking up as many phone extensions as you want.
Prediction: AT&T will lose again. |
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dbarc
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Fort Wayne, IN | said by richb01803:
I seem to recall that before 1984, the telco charged extra for each phone extension in the house. Phones came in black or beige; a new feature like TouchTone(tm) came along once every 20 years; and the phones were hardwired directly into the wall.
At the time of the divestiture, the gov't threw out this closed-system format and mandated (a) RJ-11 jacks and (b) no extra charges for hooking up as many phone extensions as you want.
Prediction: AT&T will lose again.
Actually, I think it was pre-devisture. Before the Carterphone case was lost by ATT, they (still holding the baby bells) didn't permit any owner supplied equipment. You leased their Western Electric phone from them and paid through the nose.. I mean by the month. If on GTE, you got your Automatic Electric phones the same way. |
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