Universal service
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In telecommunications, universal service was conceived by Theodore Vail, at AT&T, in the late 1800s; any user could connect. This concept, arising from competition for rights to an electrical distribution system, became regulated as a public utility, in exchange for monopoly control of telephony.[1]
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- ^ William L. Baldwin, review of The Fall of the Bell System, by Peter Temin. Science, Vol. 239, No. 4841. (Feb. 12, 1988), pp. 800-801.
