In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.
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Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.
While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.
I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.
Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
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