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."

Why?

[msauve]

You don't know how to sign you name [google.com]?

From AT&T to at&t (Colbert explains)

[Anonymous Coward]

Colbert explains [youtube.com] how the old AT&T re-grouped/formed.

(Is it really that bad? All Baby Bells are back together?)

Re:Everyone should have an old touch tone phone

[Anonymous Coward]

Most of the equipment in my house has a UPS. My phone, my answering machine, my stereo (keeps the channel presets), my WAP in the attic, etc. [...]

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I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.

Rarely have I seen such a topical sig.

(Me, I use a cell phone; it has its own UPS!)

Re:we're the phone company

[54mc]

And if you want to eat the bread made from the wheat grown in my fields, you'll run an OC 12 line to my farmhouse.

I'm as straight as y = mx + c

[Anonymous Coward]

and yet I'm strangely intrigued...