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The Future of the Regional Bells |
 | | In exchange for the right to exclusively provide telephone service and subsidiary Western Electric's equipment, ATandT was granted control of the entire United States telephone network. |
| | ATandT's first taste of competition came in 1968 with the "Carterphone" decision in which other vendors could offer telephones to customers. |
| | In 1969, the FCC granted MCI access to operate private lines between St. Louis and Chicago. |
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