J.J. Miller
In my humble opinion we were better off with a govt. controlled monopoly then
we have with the competitive one we have now.
Stan the old man
-----Original Message-----
From: John J. Miller <seaspark@xxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Oct 1, 2015 8:38 pm
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Morals
I actually have always had a lot of respect for the telephone system;
just think; with two # 18 wires you can reach and talk to anywhere in the
world, much more reliable than radio. I thought for the money it was a great
thing. Of course, now I think my phone bill is a little too high.
I don't think many people realized what a great thing they had in their
own home.
JJ Miller
On 10/1/2015 10:48 AM, (Redacted sender sblumen123 for DMARC) wrote:
AT&T was once a government controlled monopoly so government
regulations played a bigger roll then now.
Stan the expert
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Oct 1, 2015 9:28 am
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Morals
It has nothing to do with morals. The telephone company wanted as much money as
they could squeeze out of you. You wanted to pay as little as possible.
There
used to be only one telephone company that had a monopoly and it was in their
best interests to keep an outdated technology that earned them the greatest
income, at the cost of the consumer.
Once the monopoly was broken up to the
free market the technology changed overnight. A long distance call that cost
$10/minute 50 years go costs 1 cent/minute today and you can have an unlimited
number of extensions.
-----Original Message-----
From: "John J. Miller"<seaspark@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sep 30, 2015 9:51 PMsparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To:
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Moralsthis talk about morals; I thought I should confess my
With all of
misgivings.a few years ago, when I lived in NJ I added several extension
Quite
phones in myhouse without adding to my
monthly bill. I thought it was high tech, the waythey used to detect
illegal extensions was by sending an ac signal on yourline, measure
the impedance,the only thing connected when your phone was "Offhook"
was the ringer, so I disconnected all ringers except one. This way the
"Telephone Cops", (WKRP Cinnc.), could not detect my transaction anddidn't. I rationalized this action because I knew it wasn't costing
they
anyoneany money; I didn't make the phone Co. consume more power, etc.
some sort of DE-regulation and people were allowed to connect
Along came
anything theywanted, so it wasn't illegal anymore. Telephone techs I
knew said that somuch was being added, that it upset the networks.
JJ Miller
