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Is anyone old enough to remember setting up a landline phone line? This was 20 years ago - the phone company said I needed to pick a long distance provider but
by hermannj314 5y ago
Is anyone old enough to remember setting up a landline phone line?
This was 20 years ago - the phone company said I needed to pick a long distance provider but they were legally prohibited from telling me anything about them other than their names. They read me a list starting with a randomly designated letter of the alphabet.
I'm sure the government will handle this problem just fine...
- jedberg 5y agoI do remember that! And then after they read their mandated list I picked a random company and then ended up using a VOIP provider. They had a local access number you would call, put in your secret code, and then you could call anywhere they had an exit point, for like 1 cent a minute, which was crazy cheap at the time. But you had to deal with a 3 second delay because the internet wasn't fast. :)
- gruez 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu all over again?
- travisporter 5y agoThis doesn't sound bad... wouldn't the best company eventually win out from word-of-mouth? Unless you had to choose under duress or the receiver would shock you or something
- jyounker 5y agoAnd before they broke up ma bell you weren't allowed to plug your own electronics into the phone jacks. [That's why we had acoustic coupled modems existed.] You also had to wait a month to get a phone line hooked up too. Long distance cost dollars per minute. Breaking up ma bell was the best thing that happened to telecommunications in the USA.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWhat is the problem with this?