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kudos:1 | reply to MrMaster
Re: fu to Verizon 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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