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They never should have let the same company own the wire and provide retail service. The retail part of AT&T should have had to pay the same rates to the wire o
by jkaplowitz 6y ago
They never should have let the same company own the wire and provide retail service. The retail part of AT&T should have had to pay the same rates to the wire owner as everyone else. And penalties should have been applied to the lineman's employer if they caused a loss of service without properly checking the database of the wire owner company.
Alas, as you say, that's not how it happened.
- worker767424 6y agoAs much as people like to talk up the AT&T breakup, it wasn't all that effective because it just created regional monopolies with the silly local/long distance split. Splitting up network companies and retailers might have been more interesting, but there's still the issue of having a monopoly on the last mile of copper.