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Yeah those "autopatch" devices were illegal - Ma Bell had rules against connecting any radio to the telephone system. Probably worried about long distance reven
by RachelF 2y ago
Yeah those "autopatch" devices were illegal - Ma Bell had rules against connecting any radio to the telephone system. Probably worried about long distance revenue.
The portable radios/cord free telephones back then were a bit of a legal gray-zone.
- mananaysiempre 2y ago>> Back in the 80s [...]. > Yeah those "autopatch" devices were illegal[.] Hadn’t the Carterfone decision[1] made them legal already in 1968? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone