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Re: Copper? what Copper? said by Matt:Take that up with your city. It's not just the telephone/cable companies who use it. It can be used for water, gas, sidewalk, basically whatever the easement allows. Sure. Like that's real effective. They wanted to run a big 500kv powerline through here and basically they told us if we didn't cooperate they'd go to the state PUC and they'd seize our land from us forcibly. The powerline essentially exports power to big cities like NYC and Newark. We don't see much benefit here, and property values would quickly go down if there's a big powerline in your back yard.
Ever heard the saying, "you can't fight city hall?"
All I want is some choice in providers in exchange for the moneymaking rights of way that monopoly telcos are given.
In addition they've been collecting USF and lots of other taxes and fees for years. All we want is a little return on our investment and not to be given a "take it or leave it" attitude by monopoly telcos.
Is that really a bad thing to ask for?
By the way the only utilities that swing by here are electric, phone and cable. Water is from wells and no gas lines, at least none that serve us anyway. They're all headed to the bigger towns and cities. |
