40 Years After Carterphone Ended AT&T Equipment Monopoly

fm6 writes "Wednesday was the 40th anniversary of the Carterfone Decision which brought to an end AT&T's monopoly on telephone terminal equipment. Ars Technica has an opinionated but informative backgrounder on this landmark, which pretty much created the telecommunications world as we currently know it."

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Re:It's a good thing...

[crunzh]

>The end of the AT&T monopoly (and the >corresponding destruction of the state monopolies >in Europe) paved the way for this technology to >exist. Not correct. Northern Europe had quite good cellular coverage before the monopolies was broken up.