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You're know, Western Union said they said, well, young Alexander Graham Bell, do you realize that a telegraph operator can key faster than you can talk? And do you think that people in the United States of America are going to want wires run to the arms? Was more than just an invention of a device. It was a vision of a world interconnected by wide, a world in which human speech, not the Morse code of telegraphy, was the. I never bought the idea that there should be a universal system. In fact, when they experimented with long distance Boston to Chicago, Boston, the San Francisco, they got teed off at him and fire. Hell's bells. A radio history of the telephone. They said that the telephone system simply would not work, they would break down

or explode or some awful, awful thing would happen if any equipment manufactured by anybody other than man were ever attached to it in any way. Every time somebody dialed the phone, you know, at home, you go, look, look, look, look, look, look, look at the same time. You go, click, click, click, click, click, click. Then it complete. And Granges good afternoon, this is Mr. Chairman of the telephone company. Do I have the party to whom I'm speaking? Hell's Bells. A radio history of the telephone. Anderson, I love standing on this bridge, Beiser, because everything

I see is that you have to write that down. And it's because I was young and adventuresome and the troublemaker at the time, it was my view that we ought to have competition in the telephone business again. We weren't used to competition. We created the telephone. We created the telephone network. No one quite knew what would be quite good if he decided this case. No one knew how he might. Kavakeb, you might cut people in half. Up periscope! Up Periscope! Up periscope! Hell's Bells: A radio history of the telephone. We didn't visualize, I don't think what it actually ended

up being that continue, we need to make the change personally. That's a big shift for a lot of us. Again, they would be like waiting fine, we'll say this package and you would get four or five different services and the meantime and you get your bill, which would be good for. So they were pushing services and they were confusing the hell out of people when they were buying telephone service on what was basic service and what enhanced services. Hell's Bells. A radio history of the telephone. Big, powerful monopolies that used to have it all are worried because

the monopoly they have is not everything anymore. The only remaining media of mass communication in this country to which we all have a legally enforceable right of access is the telephone system. The explosion of communications in that mid to late 70s time frame, 77, 78, 79, many people communicating on a more one on one kind of basis. Since technology is changing so rapidly, it it becomes a political debate. And I think any existing entrenched competitor, fierce competition. A radio history of the telephone. Was it Mark Twain who once said upon the discovering of the Telegraph had been had

now connected, meaning Texas, he says now that meaning Texas can talk to each other, what are they going to say? People are not banging on the door to get online to get information. So when your mission is to serve all the citizens, then you got a whole different world view than a free marketeer wants to deliver a service to other. I think what it gets down to is an attempt by the regulated monopolies to somehow be define what an essential public service is. A radio history of the telephone. I think the landscape is going to change so rapidly that in just a few years, the

year 2000 that people have been talking about is that we some great futuristic zones. The whole landscape will change and it would make sense at some point for the cable companies and the telephone companies to collaborate again. But I think if you're going to practice free private enterprise and really do a brilliant marketplace competition, you got to have some rules. There's going to be a lot of people playing. I think we recognize think we accept that. We see that as a. And we want to make networks where a lot of people like. I mean, they had that kind of power, they could literally go out and buy up every

single person who could conceivably come in and testify against. I think what's really at issue is that the phone companies are seeing the arena in which they're offering the service shrinking. And from a policy perspective. Divestiture and new reconfigurations of the cable and telephone industry, newspapers, tronic publishing and looking at the prospects of decided to continue with the breakup of some of these regional holding companies. My God, this is an exciting industry. Hell's Bells: A radio history of the telephone.