An end to fully open networks

作者: Seth Godin | 原文: seths.blog | 发布: 2026-09-04

If you have a phone, you can call anyone you like. The recipient doesn’t have to answer, but the network is an open API, available to anyone. The Bell System began as an actual networked system–many companies, using the same protocol, shared calls with each other. When Bell got greedy and stopped interconnecting, phone use became annoying–several phones on your desk, or there were simply people you couldn’t call. AT&T interconnected when it was finally more profitable to own the standard than to block it, and the government mandate then locked that in and led to the phone system we have now.

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