> we can't do the stupidity of breaking alphabet into a bunch of small baby alphabets like what we did with at&t.I think that was complete incompetence, if not

> we can't do the stupidity of breaking alphabet into a bunch of small baby alphabets like what we did with at&t.I think that was complete incompetence, if not corruption. After the breakup, it became trivial for me to buy my own phone and hook what I wanted up to my phone connection (including dial-up modems later). What do you think would have granted+preserved those options, that wasn't an exercise in incompetence and corruption?