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Originally Posted by pwalker8
... you could only hook Bell Telephone equipment up ... It was truly a government enforced monopoly.
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I don't at that time recall ever hearing anyone say that it was a government enforced monopoly, simply that it was a monopoly and as such stifled competition as well as the other usual problems we get with monopolies.
As for only hooking up Bell Telephone equipment, when I was in high school we had an Ericofone, made by Ericsson Company of Sweden. Later, at work we had modems connected to the phone lines that weren't made by Bell Telephone. The main thing I remember is that when you connected something not made by BT you had to let them know and tell them its Ringer Equivalency.
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