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 NOVA_GuyObamaCare Kills AmericansPremium
join:2002-03-05 | reply to caco
Re: This was in the comment section of WSJ piece Two can play at the game that Mr. Hahn has started, though. How about this as a response?
AT&T should not make long distance and local telephone so expensive to rural areas. Today's rural residents tend to be older, and such expensive monopolistic pricing make it harder on their health, which in many cases requires more medication and more frequent doctor visits than years ago. In addition, most of these people are on a fixed income, and rely heavily upon minimal Social Security payments to get by. Having to choose between eating something other than dog food for dinner and affording a telephone line is not something that AT&T should force these elderly people to do.
AT&T needs to be concerned about the needs of these seniors, and their children. In many cases, the children have moved off the farm and out of town long ago. They need to maintain communications with their parents. Not being able to do this with an affordable telephone plan prevents them from being able to keep up the spirits of elderly rural residents, and denies these senior citizens access to an important tool their children use for monitoring their health.
AT&T and other baby bell companies should be allowed the flexibility to use reasonable pricing and quality management tools to provide access to those who desperately need it. Preventing phone access through high prices to our parents and grandparents who still live on the farm is over the line and should be prohibited by the FCC.
A concerned citizen
Resident, the United States
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 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | said by NOVA_Guy:Two can play at the game that Mr. Hahn has started, though. How about this as a response? AT&T should not make long distance and local telephone so expensive to rural areas. Except that it's small, regional/local phone operations that are making it expensive. Were it AT&T, they'd have no reason to hate pumping as they'd be the ones with the revenue center. But, since they have to pay out to the pumpers, they'd cut them off if they had the legal leeway to do so.
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