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To: Trailerpark Badass

“The Federal government litigated against consumer choice for long-distance phone service, and cellular phones. It’s alway prudent to consider that you don’t know what you don’t know”

Huh? What??

Ma Bell/AT&t was your only choice of phone service in the US for much of our early history. One company. One rate.

IN mid 1974 an early MCI won their lawsuit against Ma Bell and broke up part of Ma Bell in the South East enabling other phone companies to get involved and break up the other 6 Bells across the rest of the country. The US filed anti trust laws against Ma Bell breaking in 1974 leading to the breakup of Ma Bell.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996(by the Federal gov’t) further deregulated the phone companies and opened up more competition among phone companies and cellular service to what we know today.

https://www.directenergy.com/learning-center/history-of-deregulation-telecommunication


234 posted on 01/16/2022 5:18:46 PM PST by setter
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To: setter

Lot of Fed (FCC) interference between The breakup of ATT and 1996.


237 posted on 01/16/2022 5:29:52 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: setter

Why do you think the rest of the world had cheap cellular before we did?


238 posted on 01/16/2022 5:30:46 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: setter
But, more to the point, why don't you answer my question in #230?

If manufacturers are selling EVs, into the future, as fast as they can make them, what are you trying to assert here?

244 posted on 01/16/2022 5:35:40 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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