Source: Hacker News
Article note: The old Bell system was truly a marvel.
The fact that a nation-wide, circuit-switched, analog network with free-air microwave links worked is borderline-miracle.
The fact that it was comprised of technologies invented in-house that were engineered until they had 50-year service lives before being deployed is completely foreign to the modern technology context.
...and now we're letting the abusive monopoly business part reassemble itself _without_ the benefit of running a civilization altering science and engineering lab.
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