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>How could the growth of answering machines be connected to the break-up of AT&T AT&T enforced a rule that you could not connect "foreign attachments" to the p
by Imnimo 5y ago
>How could the growth of answering machines be connected to the break-up of AT&T
AT&T enforced a rule that you could not connect "foreign attachments" to the phone network, which included answering machines not made by them.
https://dcchs.org/the-era-of-ma-bell/ https://dcchs.org/the-era-of-ma-bell/
- allturtles 5y agoPer your linked article: "That began to change in the 1950s ... Following the D.C. Circuit’s Hush-a-Phone decision, the FCC began establishing standards that would allow the sale and use of myriad devices on the telephone network, from answering machines, to fax machines, to computer modems." The break-up didn't happen until 1982.
- Imnimo 5y agoSure, but I guess I view the breakup as a process, of which that decision is just one step.