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Carterfone decision

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Carterfone decision
The FCC decree in 1968 that permitted users to connect their own telephone equipment to the public telephone system.


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The FCCs 1968 Carterfone decision -- celebrating its 40th anniversary this year -- is frequently cited as a key legal precedent for Net Neutrality and open access.
This membership does not include voting privileges but as Ton Kopitowsky, CMA president at the time the vote was taken, commented, "Several years have elapsed since divestiture and even longer since the Carterfone decision.
17, 1940 First dial phone service arrives in Salt Lake City July 15, 1967 Roosevelt, Utah, converts to dial service, thus completing Mountain Bell's 46-year modernization program October 1967 Bell Labs field tests three-channel data set in Salt Lake City June 27, 1968 Carterfone decision, allows customer-owned equipment July 1968 Salt Lake City becomes the first Mountain States city to get the new 12-button touch tone phone Nov.
 
 
 
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