[Boatanchors] Denver, Staffrod VA, Bosie Goodies

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On balance, I agree with Bob, et al.  My son-in-law had to get a new 
cell-phone.  He says that it's a great camera but absolutely the worst telephone 
he's ever used.  So he still needs a new phone.  Unfortunately, mine isn't 
much better.  It'll do a bzillion things but does none of them well.

In a message dated 04/11/2015 13:00:14 PM Central Daylight Time, 
manualman at juno.com writes: 
> Stupid No. Monopolies can be dangerous. They alone drive the costs we
> pay, determine what we use for equipment, determine what features they
> will allow us to have, and stifle any innovation that doesn't comply with
> their view of future expansion of products and services.
> 
> Pete, wa2cwa
> 
> 
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 04:18:33 -0400 Bob Young <bobyoung53 at hotmail.com>
> writes:
> >Yup, breaking up the Bell telephone company was just one of many 
> >stupid things that we have allowed to happen in the past 20-30 
> >years,
> >  
> >Bob
> >KB1OKL
> >  
> >>Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 17:17:11 -0500
> >>From: jhhaynes at earthlink.net
> >>To: bcarling at cfl.rr.com
> >>CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> >>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Denver, Staffrod VA, Bosie Goodies
> >>
> >>
> >>I have a saying that if we still had the old Bell System and Bell 
> >Labs
> >>your cell phone might be as big as a brick, but you would be able 
> >to
> >>understand what the caller is saying and there would be no 
> >dropouts.

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