The Long-Distance Revolution: From Trucker Radios to Equal Access—and Its Modern Legacy
Executive Summary The modern telecommunications landscape was shaped by a decades-long battleagainst the world’s most powerful corporate monopoly: the American Telephone andTelegraph Company (AT&T, or “Ma Bell”). What began in 1963 as a modest,localized initiative to help long-distance truckers communicate along Route 66evolved into a legal and commercial war that dismantled an empire. Driven by…
