This may have been a small evidence. However, the divesture was initiated by a disgruntled ATT employee who started MCI.
So, with the diversture, we have come for 15 dollar phone bills to hundreds of dollars.
Technology advanced but so did the ablility to charge more.
Regulation kept the telecommunication industry within affordable limits.
Grandma and Grandpa on a limited income could afford a telephone. Now, the base rate is more than some social security checks.
So, as we look at the advances, one must ask, how did we take care of our population for communication?
Did we really better ourselves or enslave ourselves in the manner of George Orwell's 1984.
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This may have been a small evidence. However, the divesture was initiated by a disgruntled ATT employee who started MCI. So, with the diversture, we have come for 15 dollar phone bills to hundreds of dollars. Technology advanced but so did the ablility to charge more. Regulation kept the telecommunication industry within affordable limits. Grandma and Grandpa on a limited income could afford a telephone. Now, the base rate is more than some social security checks. So, as we look at the advances, one must ask, how did we take care of our population for communication? Did we really better ourselves or enslave ourselves in the manner of George Orwell's 1984.