SinghaLvr <singhalvr@charter.net> writes:

> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:38:55 -0500, Todd H. wrote
> (in article <841wmeejf4.fsf@ripco.com>):
>
> > SinghaLvr <singhalvr@charter.net> writes:
> >
> >> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:39:37 -0500, Todd H. wrote
> >> (in article <84wt48znjq.fsf@ripco.com>):
> >>
> >>> Can't say exactly, but I can say mid 30's qualifies. I recall when ma
> >>> Bell controlled things with an expensive iron fist right down to
> >>> renting all your phones to you. You know the ones with the actualy
> >>> bell ringers that Gen X and beyond probably only know from the Matrix
> >>> movies.
> >>
> >> Mid 30's? I think you need to add a decade or so on that. :-)
> >
> > Perhaps I started hating utility monopolies a decade before you did. :-)
> >
> > --
> > Todd H.
> > http://www.toddh.net/
>
> I'd say since the lawsuit to break them up was initiated in 1974.
> (Of course it wasn't implemented until '84)

Yeah.... I've been a consumer advocate sort since well before they
gave me a driver's license. Siblings tell me I moved a phone outlet
from one unused room to my own before I finished middle school. They
say it was an unhealthy byproduct of early exposure to electrical
engineers in the family. :-)

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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/