AT&T

“There were some very, very established players, right? AT&T had a solution. Verizon had a solution. There were a number of companies that were in sort of the hundreds of millions, half a billion in revenue already doing this.”

“AT&T went to them and they said, OK, here's the deal. We can guarantee that every single address in America will have a telephone and it's called universal access. And that's why you can only let us do this... A private company became really the United States phone company.”