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1. That is an awesome story about Philly1

2. If MaBell had her way, if it weren't for MCI, we'd still be renting our handset and paying through the nose for long distance calls.

3. The largest cell provider is Verizon (formerly, Bell Atlantic, formerly C&P Telephone, formerly AT&T -- MABELL)

[theFIRMbss]

>If MaBell had her way ... we'd still be renting our handset and paying through the nose for long distance calls

Careful what you say! Do you really think they stopped listening to us?!

[Paleo Conservative]

2. If MaBell had her way, if it weren't for MCI, we'd still be renting our handset and paying through the nose for long distance calls.

In order to transmit data we'd still be required to buy Western Electric acoustically coupled 300 baud modems from Ma Bell.