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Telephone liberation reshapes the American home in the 1980s
Bradford L. Peery predicts deregulation and tech advances will revolutionize telephony. Consumers may own home telephones and wiring, connect a telephone computer to cable TV, and control home systems remotely. Competition grows with AT T deregulation, long distance rivals, and a likely rewrite of the Communications Act within two years.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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American Telephone and Telegraph
Baby Bell
Ma”’ Bell
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Southern Pacific
MCI Communications
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Western Union and
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IBM
Aetna
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