 TamaraBQuestion The Current ParadigmPremium
join:2000-11-08
Da Bronx
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Re: What? said by kapil:Eliminating COs, garages and call centers? WTF? The last mile plant has to be aggregated somewhere. Yup! I ditched POTS last December and never looked back. I converted my Verizon POTS/DSL line to 1M Naked DSL. My Verizon bill is now a clean Tax-Free, $19.99/Mo. and price-stable because of the 2 year contract.
However! My DSL rides in on copper, from a CO. My last repair required VZ to show up with 2 men and run over 500 feet of new outside wire. Where I live there is NO option other than VZ; there is no cable, no fiber, no Wifi, only ancient copper. I am sure this is the case for much of the country. To say the future of copper-based services is dead is futuristic. Until better and faster wireless services become available to a much wider coverage area, copper will be an absolute necessity.
Bob
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JPLPremium
join:2007-04-04
Downingtown, PA
kudos:1 | For those who think that VoIP will always be tax free... I really hate to break it to you. Washington will not give up that tax revenue easily. So, what's to do? Easy. When many states started losing 'franchise fees' due to customers going to DBS for TV... they passed laws enacting franchise fees for satellite dishes. Of course, doing that exposes those franchise fees for what they really are - just taxes. The notion that they're needed to pay for right-of-way usage of laying land-lines is out the window in that case.
Right now internet video streams (including voice) are not taxed (at least not at the federal level). With more and more people migrating to VoIP and away from POTS, don't be surprised if Congress decides that they need to level the playing field, and start excising those taxes on VoIP service as well. |
