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> Compare to the extreme of the Tele Phone Company and your only being able to hook up slow modems you've leased from them. I was under the impression that tho
by tbrownaw 17y ago
> Compare to the extreme of the Tele Phone Company and your only being able to hook up slow modems you've leased from them.
I was under the impression that those phone company rules were done away with by government interference that was rather similar to what they're trying to do to internet connectivity now.
- hga 17y agoBut these phone company rules existed in the first place because the government granted AT&T a legal monopoly to provide service (well, service to the most profitable places; lots of rural areas had to get service from someone else such as GTE or set up their own ILECs).