[GreenKeys] Another Internet Outage

Doug Alderdice ka2wft at arrl.net
Thu Aug 4 19:43:22 EDT 2011


At 04:23 PM 8/4/2011 -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>The curious thing is that the Bell System used to subsidize long distance 
>out of local tarrifs to make them more affordable. I think this was one of 
>the things that lead to the break-up.

Actually, it was the other way around: Long Distance subsidized the local 
service so that local service was very affordable.

Doug A.




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