[Boatanchors] WAS Goodies NOW Bell

[rbethman]

Let us re-look how it *really* was:

You paid a monthly fee per each phone.  It was theirs *NOT* yours!

You paid to move any line in the home.  It was theirs *NOT* yours!

So, I ask this:  How much would y'all be paying per phone per month today?

The next phone jack you move to another room, or ADD another one, How 
much would y'all pay today?

I very well remember ONE phone in the house.

It was any color as long as it was black and all metal.

I don't know about you folks, BUT, I sure enjoy having whatever color 
the wife wants, where she decides it will be for perhaps 6 months, and I 
have the tone generator, a roll of 4wire "Jake", and my own "BUTT SET".

Those days at the top of this *WERE* the days of the Monopoly!

Gee, I can call about 40 miles in any direction *AND* not pay a TOLL!

I think I like it the way it is.  Do you think you'd have wireless 
phones all over the house under the *OLD* days?

YMMV  This is *MY* $0.02 worth.  *** You weren't billed for this 
message. ***

Regards, Bob - N0DGN

On 4/11/2015 1:57 PM, manualman at juno.com wrote:
> 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