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[quote user="Datafever"][quote user="futuremodal"] Wireless needed customers. AT&T had the monopoly on households until dereg.  If you do some research, you will see that's when cell phones took off.  They got 'em after deregulation.  I suspect you know quite a few people who have dispensed with land lines altogether in favor of cell technology and wireless broadband. [/quote] Okay, you are going to have to explain this a little bit slower cuz I seem to be stuck on stupid.  Ma Bell had a monopoly on households?  So are you trying to say that people could not buy cell phones because they had a landline phone?  As ownership of a cell phone has never (to my knowledge) been connected with ownership of a landline phone, I'm having a little trouble following your logic here. And since call phones "took off" before dereg, what does that imply? If I find other things that "took off" at about the same time, can I claim that the Ma Bell breakup was responsible for that too?  (Say, didn't Microsoft release its first version of Windows back then?) BTW, it is probably just me, but I do not know of any households that do not have a landline phone.  I do know of some that don't have cell phones though. [/quote] You do know that cell companies access land lines, right? Look, let's just drop it.  Most of the retorts on this particular subject are seemingly convinced that telecommunications were better under the Ma Bell monopoly than under the current competitive dereg.  I'm not sure why that is, other than some will cling to Ma Bell as an example of why monopolies are a benefit to society and not a curse, ergo the current railroad monopoly aspects are also a benefit.  It is a subjective analysis, one in which "what would have been" cannot be objectively scrutinized due to the lack of a crystal ball.  Still, we do have logical dissemination, but that has never flown on this forum. So go ahead, believe with all your heart that America would be better off if we had no interindustry competition in any sector.  Competition is bad for America.  Whatever......... Monopolies rule! All hail the great and wonderful Monopoly!
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