Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Doing only that which brings the most profit. Message-ID: <4240@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 09:12:58 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4240 Posted: Sun Aug 19 09:12:58 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 09:12:58 EDT References: <740@ubc-ean.CDN> <1050@dciem.UUCP>, <999@hcrvax.UUCP>, <8680@watmath.UUCP>, <4226@utzoo.UUCP>, <423Re: Doing only that which brSun, 19-Aug-84 09:12:58 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 18 Something people seem not to know about is the existence of private phone companies in Canada. Bell has managed to take over all the ones which I knew about, but there may still be some. The one in Dunville, Ontario charged more than Bell service, but it also gave you better service. And it let you own your own phones when this was unheard of within the Bell system. Now the interesting thing is that these companies were able to connect to each other and to Bell. It was in the interest of all parties to allow phone calls to travel from one system to another -- because a phone is valuable in that it gives you access to other people who have phones. The phone is precisely the sort of utility that is not going to be cut off because each person who is unreachable by phone diminishes the phone's attraction as a provider of ``universal service'' (or whatever they are calling it this week.) Laura Creighton utzoo!laura