On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:26:59AM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > > >From: boblq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:56 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > >> > >> Without the AT&T monopoly, the telephone would have taken a lot longer > >> to become ubiquitous. > > > >Debateable. > > > Maybe it would be for cities, but it isn't for rural areas. It takes a lot > of money to run lines to out of the way areas, with a low expected return. > Look at the problems electricity had, and that broadband has today. > > Gabe
Have we forgotten that rural electrification/phone service _only_ happened when Franklin Roosevelt forced a bill through Congress mandating a small tax on all phone service (we still pay it) paying for it? <mutter> damned socialism! -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
