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**Feflyinvelf** · 07-17-2012, 02:46 AM

And when they were long distance cost $3 a minute and you only had a couple carriers that carried the call.

What's happened since deregulation? Many companies offer phone service and long distance is free. Thanks for making my point.

Fire, the wheel, the cotton gin. How did you ever get invented without gubmint involvement.

You claimed that the foundations of the Internet were developed by the private sector. In fact, they were developed by Bell Labs, the R&D arm of AT&T, which AT&T was able to fund due to their cushy monopoly. There are no corporate R&D labs dong the kind of fundamental research that Bell did, which also included inventing the transistor and the laser along.

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Feflyinvelf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 351 Senior Member	And when they were long distance cost $3 a minute and you only had a couple carriers that carried the call. What's happened since deregulation? Many companies offer phone service and long distance is free. Thanks for making my point. Fire, the wheel, the cotton gin. How did you ever get invented without gubmint involvement. You claimed that the foundations of the Internet were developed by the private sector. In fact, they were developed by Bell Labs, the R&D arm of AT&T, which AT&T was able to fund due to their cushy monopoly. There are no corporate R&D labs dong the kind of fundamental research that Bell did, which also included inventing the transistor and the laser along.
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