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On 13-5-2010 11:38, Invisible wrote:
>>> You mean to tell me the post office controls the phone system?
>>>
>> Who else? Here the company was called the PTT for "Post Telegraaf
>> Telefoon". Despite the different spelling, I think you can figure out
>> what those words mean. There were all for obvious reasons (i.e.
>> obvious outside the US) state monopolies that involved communications,
>> so the logical thing (id.) is to combine them.
>
> I don't know my history very well, but I'm guessing postal services
> existed long before electrical telecommunications. I'd guess that when
> it became the fashion, it seemed logical to task the postal system with
> implementing it...
Only if your philosophy includes the concept of state monopolies.
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