While there was a ton of amazing stuff going on inside Bell Labs, it really seems like progress in telecom didn't accelerate until after the ATT breakup. If you

While there was a ton of amazing stuff going on inside Bell Labs, it really seems like progress in telecom didn't accelerate until after the ATT breakup. If you think the cell phone situation now is bad, you used to have to rent your home phone, like a cable box, from the phone company.