Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Edward Greenberg Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: "One System, One Policy, Universal Service" Message-ID: <3731@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Feb 90 09:25:30 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 32 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 91, message 3 of 9 An old advertisement. No date given: Two men, 1000 miles apart talk to each other by telephone without leaving their desks. Two wires of copper form a track over which the talk travels from point to point throughout a continent. Moving along one railroad track at the same time are scores of trains carrying thousands of passengers. The telephone track must be checked from end to end to carry the voice of one customer. The Bell System has more than ten million miles of wire that reaches over five million telephones. This system is operated by a force of 100,000 people and making seven billion connections a year, twenty million "clear tracks" a day for the local and the long distance communications of the American people. The efficiency of the Bell System depends upon "One System, One Policy, and Universal Service." -- American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Associated Companies. [Moderator's Note: What memories! That ad first appeared in 1935, and was used for more than twenty years. Does anyone remember the ad of the old lady in the rocking chair with a contented look on her face? She was an AT&T stockholder in the depression years. The text pointed out that AT&T stockholders were a happy bunch, since not a single quarter passed without a generous dividend from Mother. PT]