At the same time that AT&T and Verizon want to give up on land lines, we have to ask what will replace them for the under served?
Lets see, will Verizon or AT&T be willing to replace antique copper lines with modern coax or fiber optic in rural areas? The alternative is wireless, but wait, everyone in the wireless industry is well aware that a spectrum crunch has already occurred. And the wireless industry has already cast its eye on the OTA television industry's share of the already reduced spectrum among other potential spectrum grabs.
Well I have a suggestion to the FCC, tell the wireless industry they get no additional spectrum until 100% of America has broadband internet hard wired into every American home.That will give them an incentive to do their public duty.
One note about the wireless spectrum crunch - in the less densely populated areas where it would be more cost prohibitive to replace or upgrade land lines there wouldn't be as many problems with not having enough spectrum available.
In some places it makes more sense to hardwire in others it makes more sense to use wireless.
reply to Osage Lets see I want to go from a reliable landline that never goes down even during a ice storm and you can actually understand people compared to wireless . My DSL (landline has been down maybe 2 times in 10 years) . Is it as fast as cable maybe not not but cable goes down a lot more than the phone or dsl does. Lets put everything over 1 medium. We are one good virus away from catastrophe and eventually someone will write one which will suck up all the bandwidth and you will have no internet or phone. Anyone I know who has phone over cable is always having problems and its always going offline. The real reason is ATT and or Verizon just don't want to support copper anymore and they want to put all their money into their crappy wireless services. We are probably slowing frying ourselves with all this wireless garbage.
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