Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

Bob Evans wrote:
>
>> Just think of all that innovation and investment that's been "stifled"
>> over the last 50 years under Title II.
>> Anyone remember having to "rent" their rotary phones from AT&T?
> Yes, I am that old. You were not allowed to connect a phone of your own.
>

Let's also remember that it was regulatory action that enabled us to 
connect modems and phones to AT&T's network.  (Can you say "Carterphone" 
decision)  And it was  Title II regulation, and the Computer Inquiries, 
that allowed the Internet to be assembled from circuits leased from AT&T 
long lines.

Miles Fidelman


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