![]() You could now plug an answering machine, say, into a phone line, and nobody could stop you. You merely leased, and you couldn’t hack up Ma Bell’s property.Īfter that, it took until 1968 for the Carterfone decision to come down, which allowed people to electrically connect non-AT&T devices to AT&T’s phone lines. For everyone who isn’t a phone phreak: Back then, AT&T owned the telephones. No electrical connection, merely close enough physical proximity to allow effective sound management. United States established in 1956 that you could legally use a machine to make sounds into an (unmodified!) telephone handset and capture sounds from said handset. Ma Bell protected its network like a mother bear protected her cubs concessions had to be wrested from it, one Federal case at a time. They cared about profit, and appeasing the regulators, and., believe it or not, about the health of the network.
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