 MrMasterjetsetterPremium
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Re: fu to Verizon Verizon is an offshoot of the AT&T breakup back in the day..obviously before each of your time cause of these weird questions.
Can you even fathom how much it would cost to run copper to an entire city, even if it is as small as 10,000 people? This is to every house and every community.
Verizon didn't have to pay for it. It was given to them by the US taxpayer years and years ago.
Verizon is cherry picking because of their monopoly and utility status. It is different than a Walmart.
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| said by MrMaster:Verizon is an offshoot of the AT&T breakup back in the day..obviously before each of your time cause of these weird questions. Sorry - I was touring Bell System Central Offices when Charley Brown was running Illinois Bell, and that's no joke. A particularly popular bumper sticker on craft vehicles was "Charley Brown is my boss - I work for peanuts."
said by MrMaster:Can you even fathom how much it would cost to run copper to an entire city, even if it is as small as 10,000 people? This is to every house and every community. Yes, I can. It varies from $1500 to $3000 per home, depending on the type of connection (fiber or coax).
said by MrMaster:Verizon didn't have to pay for it. It was given to them by the US taxpayer years and years ago.
No, it wasn't. You clearly do not know what you are talking about. Just because a company installed wire in the ground under regulatory supervision does not mean the taxpayers paid for it.
What happened was that the phone company used it's own money to install the infrastructure. The regulators limited the profit that the company could make on that investment and controlled how much the subscribers could be charged each month to pay the company back.
said by MrMaster:Verizon is cherry picking because of their monopoly and utility status. It is different than a Walmart. Verizon is choosing where it wishes to do business and that is no different than any other company.
And no one has provided any proof to the assertion that Verizon was granted an exclusive franchise in any service area. |
 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
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Philly burbs
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POTS is no longer the "monopoly" it used to be. There is plenty of competition out there now.
Wireless, Cable providers, VoIP. All offer alternatives to "the phone company". DSLR runs regular stories about how the land line customer base is shrinking.
This discussion has NOTHING to do with Verizon being a monopoly, or phone service, or anything other than a temper tantrum.
"Oh, I enjoy all the good things that come from living in a rural part of the country, but I expect the big bad phone company to run that big fat fiber optic pipe out to my house in the middle of east jibip and lose money in the process".
Folks can't have it both ways. I would LOVE to live in a rural part of the country. I despise that the Toll Brothers decided to surround my wonderful middle of nowhere home with McMansions. McMansions filled with rich elitist assholes who look down on me because I'm a humble civil servant living off 44K a year driving a 7 year old car.
But, I do have multiple choices in broadband providers. It's a trade off, like everything else in life.
Not you personally, of course. I'm sure in Houston you have choices yourself. But it is a trade off.
Assholes or Bandwidth. Whatcha want? With one, comes the other....
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