Nothing as you could not buy one, the Bell System monopoly (or if you were in one of the few communities with an independent telephone company, that company) owned every telephone just as they owned all the wires, telephone exchanges, long distances routes, etc. You leased your phone equipment and the monthly lease charge was included in your bill.
It was even illegal to connect anything that the telephone company did not own to their wires, until sometime in the 1980s.
Phones were not sold. You had to rent one from the phone company and the cost was part of the bill.
To find out the cost from hitting a telephone pole, the city members would have to be contacted. It is also important that the person pay this bill, or they could get a warrant.
The average persons telephone bill per month in Tennessee is 70 dollars. The average house phone, phone bill cost 1,100 dollars per year.
200 dollars! It's an amazing price to what you pay now.
An example would be telephone bill, electricity, commission for selling items
Cost of the very first telephone
The only telephone device that was used in the 1960's, was the land line telephone.
If you look on your telephone bill, you will possibly see things like Federal Line Cost Charge, Federal Access Charge, or Federal Subscriber Line Charge. They are charges you pay for having a telephone that are accessed by the US government.
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I hit a telephone pole in late August of 2009. The bill just came in the mail today, Feb 22, 2010, for $9,000. I am insured, and I live in Northern New Jersey.