https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2019-03-21 15:21:47 UTC 2019-03-22 15:27:22 UTC hello@padlet.com chastityhill48 https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343852807 There weren't any competitors during the time and the government worked closely with AT&T to ensure that there business worked smoothly. The people were having to use AT&T if they wanted to do any long distant calls. AT&T remained the sole long-distance telephone service supplier in the nation. ]]> 2019-03-21 15:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343852807 0114001 https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343852961 The American Telegraph and Telephone Company was the sole long-distance telephone service supplier of the nation. At the time it was argued that the nature of telephone technology would operate most efficiently with only one provider due to many physically connected wires and technology needed. Making it a not so easy process to start another phone line company.]]> 2019-03-21 15:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343852961 emsengdara https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343853272 Around the 1910s AT&T researched new technologies consisting of cables underground, providing weather protection & could carry more wires in less space. Carrier-Current systems was another technology, allowing multiple calls to travel down only one pair of wires, though the only goal in this decade was to travel through the entire nation through a transcontinental telephone line.]]> 2019-03-21 15:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343853272 904087 https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343854244  In 1918 the government took control of the telegraph and cable network because of WWI. After WWI, AT&T had total control over the price ranges in the industry . Long distance rates increased by 20%, with a majority of the money belonging to AT&T. In 1982 the lawsuit was settled, AT&T would have to split from Bell System. ]]> 2019-03-21 15:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emsengdara/nq0cwxh1zpqm/wish/343854244