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You seem to have interpreted this as monopoly prices were less than today's prices. My read of the parent comment is that monopoly era phone service from AT&T
by heymijo 7y ago
You seem to have interpreted this as monopoly prices were less than today's prices.
My read of the parent comment is that monopoly era phone service from AT&T was cheaper when compared to phone service in other parts of the world during that era.
I can't speak to the veracity of this claim.
- Aloha 7y agoI was making the argument that the price for a local loop was price competitive with nationalized telecoms, but with little to no wait to have service provisioned - in many cases though the nationalized services were cheaper, by far even - but you may be pressed with a months or years long wait to establish service, because of capacity limitations, similarly in some countries you often would have experienced a dial tone delay of minutes from the time you picked up the phone, and/or would have had to schedule your long distance call many hours or days in advance because of limited circuit capacity.