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To: Schiz who wrote (15400)	12/23/1997 8:44:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 24154

<It's not about not being able to do it, it's about ms having an unfair advantage. How would you like it if the phone company charged $200 for a new connection but gave you a phone for free?> As in the case with software, I would go with a new phone company. You cannot oversimplify this issue.

To: Schiz who wrote (15400)	12/24/1997 4:05:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>It's not about not being able to do it, it's about ms having an unfair advantage. How would you like it if the phone company charged $200 for a new connection but gave you a phone for free?<<< Funny you should mention this. The old ma bell did in fact charge me more than $200 way back in the 60's for my first phone connection but the phones were 'free'. (The plain phones) When you moved you left the phone. The phone wouldn't necessarily work on a GTE city's system. When the government forced the phone co to allow people to buy phones from 3rd party vendors and plug them in the phone co fought it hard. They also used to charge me extra for putting a modem on the phone in the early days. They would do sweeps of the circuits and bust you for using that winpy 300 baud rubber-cup thing that probably took less bandwidth than 1/10 of a voice call. But they sold leased lines for modems for thousands a month, so that was that. Ah, the good old days. Before the anti-trust breakup. When a pay phone call in inflation-adjusted terms cost 3 times what it does today. Darn that government meddling. Darn those judges telling engineers how to build products. That darn gov'mint jest cain't do ennythang rhaght. Chaz