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Re: Last Laugh! Western Union's Comment About Useless Phones

Eric Bohlman (ebohlman@omsdev.com)
13 Jul 2005 19:25:53 GMT

Joe Morris <jcmorris@mitre.org> wrote in news:telecom24.312.11@telecom-
digest.org:

> The Bell system breakup [*] certainly caused problems, but the
> pre-breakup system was not what I would call accommodating to users'
> requirements ... it was instead a follower of Henry Ford's famous line
> that his customers could have any color automobile they wanted as long
> as it was black.

> Case in point -- and one that gave me lots of heartburn at the time --
> was the absurd DAA requirement. I'm all for protecting a network, but
> neither at the time nor in retrospect can I find any justification for
> the DAA other than protecting AT&T's revenue stream.

But the DAA requirement was dropped as a result of FCC action in the
late 1970s (the enactment of the Part 68 regulations). It had nothing
to do with the breakup.

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