A lot has changed in the last half century. We’ve gone from one phone company, AT&T, to a dozen or so; cable and wireless companies are taking more and more business away from the phone companies and VoIP is eliminating the need to maintain a traditional phone network altogether. Telecom…
In 1907 AT&T’s slogan was “One Policy, One System, Universal Service.” AT&T, through the Kingsbury Commitment, was allowed to operate as a monopoly and not subject to antitrust action. That monopoly continued until 1984. At that point, AT&T was broken up into smaller regional phone companies, called RBOCs, or Regional…
If you’ve been in downtown Los Angeles, you might have traveled right past one of the most famous telecommunications hubs in the world and not even noticed it. If you ever toured a data center or telecommunications hub, you know how serious security, redundancy and disaster recovery is to the…
Now that an entire generation that has grown up with dedicated, high speed internet and little kids are being taught computer code as a second language, let’s take a look back to the way things used to be. Believe it or not, it used to take a few minutes just…
Believe it or not, there was a time when people didn’t carry their wireless phones around like security blankets; when you had to hand write letters and you weren’t bombarded with ads from companies like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cox and CenturyLink, touting their internet speeds. No Monster or CareerBuilder: In…
There were approximately 15 million phones in use in the United States in 1933. By September 1st, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, that number exceeded 20 million. About the same time AT&T was producing more than 2 million new phones per year. Around the same time, AT&T set a record…
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