There were benefits and drawbacks of the breakup. One of the benefits were that there was competition and long-distance rates went down to virtually being free. can you imagine paying to call a telephone number separately or additionally today that is outside your local area code? Could you imagine having to pay our rental fee for your home phone or your cell phone today? one of the drawbacks is that they did have very good customer service and the quality of the equipment was at a high standard. While cell phone service may offer convenience the old-fashioned landline copper line phones were always reliable. There were no dead zones and worked even when the power went out.
Back in the days the we came out and gives your phone and inside wire. AT&T had its company schools we got excellent training and took pride in our work. Then the breakup came in 1985 it was a sad day.
I remember when the phone bill used to expensive as hell. I lived in a part of the state that was a toll call to almost everyone I knew. A $150/mo long distance bill wasn't unheard of. I sure don't miss the landline.
I still have a landline but it only costs about $75 a month (including virtually any long distance call I want to make) rather than the $180 it cost me in 1982. Within a few years of the Ma Bell breakup long distance bill decreased markedly.
Prior to litigation which resulted in the breakup of AT&T, the plan was to provide ISDN to nearly all customers by 1980. Had that happened the internet explosion of the 1990’s would have been at 128 K instead of 2.8 to 3.3 k for must end users.
Well they found a workaround for that. Early computers had what was called acoustic couplers for modems, where you would literally would shove the handset of a phone into the modem, and it would send and receive the dial-up data through speakers and microphones. It was indeed a very goofy setup to get around AT&T not allowing people to hook up their own equipment directly to the network, and thankfully the breakup meant you could finally plug dial-up modems directly into their lines instead of using acoustics.
Doubt that. Bell Labs was the greatest technical research institute in human history, and there's no doubt we'd have an internet of sorts by the early 1990's. However, it would be pretty expensive.
Ma Bell basically broke up and merged back together in a very weird and complicated fashion that nobody would notice. All they lost was Bell Atlantic and a few other companies that eventually became Verizon.
"But from now on we might want to be nicer to her, cause Ma Bell just lost her children" Why? They are just going to require them in a few years anyways since this breakup literally created no competition in the markets the baby bells operated in until they were acquired.
In my opinion, I think an antitrust lawsuit was not the right way to approach this. You could have had federal tax dollars invest in new telephone startups around the country to create competition, and then just let the marketplace do the talking after that. If the Bell System prevails then hooray for them, if not, then hooray for their competitors. If the both of them survive and thrive, that’s an even better story.
So your solution is to just subsidize everything? Nice to know you'll contributing to our nation's debt, and we could be at 30 trillion by the 90s instead of by 2023.
@@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI I guarantee the subsidy amount I was looking for had I been a politician in the ‘90s would not have brought us anywhere close to $30 trillion in national debt in the ‘90s.
There were benefits and drawbacks of the breakup. One of the benefits were that there was competition and long-distance rates went down to virtually being free. can you imagine paying to call a telephone number separately or additionally today that is outside your local area code? Could you imagine having to pay our rental fee for your home phone or your cell phone today? one of the drawbacks is that they did have very good customer service and the quality of the equipment was at a high standard. While cell phone service may offer convenience the old-fashioned landline copper line phones were always reliable. There were no dead zones and worked even when the power went out.
Back in the days the we came out and gives your phone and inside wire. AT&T had its company schools we got excellent training and took pride in our work. Then the breakup came in 1985 it was a sad day.
We need the bell system back to break up these docsis monopolies 🤬🤬
MCI = "Making Communications Impossible".
I remember when the phone bill used to expensive as hell. I lived in a part of the state that was a toll call to almost everyone I knew. A $150/mo long distance bill wasn't unheard of. I sure don't miss the landline.
I still have a landline but it only costs about $75 a month (including virtually any long distance call I want to make) rather than the $180 it cost me in 1982. Within a few years of the Ma Bell breakup long distance bill decreased markedly.
If Bell hadn't been broken up, we might not have had the internet and cell phones until the 2010s or maybe never. Monopolies always stifle innovation.
Yeah look at British Telecom over there.
The fastest internet speeds anyone is going to get is 1 Mb/s
Prior to litigation which resulted in the breakup of AT&T, the plan was to provide ISDN to nearly all customers by 1980. Had that happened the internet explosion of the 1990’s would have been at 128 K instead of 2.8 to 3.3 k for must end users.
Well they found a workaround for that. Early computers had what was called acoustic couplers for modems, where you would literally would shove the handset of a phone into the modem, and it would send and receive the dial-up data through speakers and microphones. It was indeed a very goofy setup to get around AT&T not allowing people to hook up their own equipment directly to the network, and thankfully the breakup meant you could finally plug dial-up modems directly into their lines instead of using acoustics.
Doubt that. Bell Labs was the greatest technical research institute in human history, and there's no doubt we'd have an internet of sorts by the early 1990's. However, it would be pretty expensive.
The news reporter sounds like Dana Carvey doing Johnny Carson on SNL.
To our Canadian friends, is Rogers anything like this?
this. needs. to. happen. again! break big tech!
no it doesn't, breaking up "big tech" does not help.
@@sillygoose635 bingo, Ma Bell just reassembled in a form that isn’t as consumer friendly as the old one was. Same thing would happen with Big Tech.
Ma Bell basically broke up and merged back together in a very weird and complicated fashion that nobody would notice. All they lost was Bell Atlantic and a few other companies that eventually became Verizon.
MCI and sprint Ended up Being huge failures.
RIP Western Electric..
In the end, MCI went the way of the dinosaur.
And only Verizon survived and gave the post-Ma Bell AT&T any kind of competition.
"But from now on we might want to be nicer to her, cause Ma Bell just lost her children" Why? They are just going to require them in a few years anyways since this breakup literally created no competition in the markets the baby bells operated in until they were acquired.
I am not Ma Bell. Stop torturing me!
Boy They Got it All Wrong PRICES Went Through the Roof
They need to break up these cable co monopolies (com crap , cox , altice etc... ) too many folks suffer from docsis and no fiber available 🤬🤬
This why we need socialism
Yay. Now I have Verizon lol
More monopoly game pieces soon…
MA BELL!
I got the ill communication.
BT Monopoly anyone?
Yep, BT owns EE, Plusnet, and the most monopolistic Openreach.
In my opinion, I think an antitrust lawsuit was not the right way to approach this. You could have had federal tax dollars invest in new telephone startups around the country to create competition, and then just let the marketplace do the talking after that. If the Bell System prevails then hooray for them, if not, then hooray for their competitors. If the both of them survive and thrive, that’s an even better story.
So your solution is to just subsidize everything?
Nice to know you'll contributing to our nation's debt, and we could be at 30 trillion by the 90s instead of by 2023.
@@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI I guarantee the subsidy amount I was looking for had I been a politician in the ‘90s would not have brought us anywhere close to $30 trillion in national debt in the ‘90s.
@@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI Except that didn't happen.
And now we have 2
3 if you include T Mobile
4 now with dish mobile, state of the art ORAN 5g network
Worst thing that has ever happened !! Telephony today is garbage. If Bell was in charge things would be alot better.
And way more expensive