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SimulationCommander's avatar

I think maybe you didn't live through the 80s, when you went to the AT&T store to buy your landline phone.

Guess what happened after the monopoly was destroyed?

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L. Kloc's avatar

Or the years before that when you rented your phone forever from Bell telephone, and had a party-line. My grandmother rented her phone for upwards of 45 years. Thousands of dollars into the monopoly with nothing to show for it.

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JuQu's avatar

Not to mention the loss of Bell Labs.

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