Oh, I don’t know about that. Think we would have all the coms technologies we have today if MaBell had been left alone?
The problem with monopolies is they don’t like things to change that much. What are your long distance changes today?
Changes=Charges.
We’d have better technologies. Instead of trailing Europe and Asia as we do now we’d be selling them our old systems like we did before AT&T was broken up.
“Think we would have all the coms technologies we have today if MaBell had been left alone?”
I can tell you from personal experience that AT&T does NOT EVER WANT to be first with any technological improvement. They won’t be last, but they will NEVER be first. They are a bunch of candy-a$$ed money grubbers who will hang on to the old for just as long as their competitors will let them. So by buying up the competition, they actually cut the advancement of technology while filling their pockets with your hard-earned money.