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[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 August 2012 17:33:01 Robert Heller did opine:

> At Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:12:37 -0400 Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 August 2012 11:04:42 Robert Heller did opine:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Verizon (the telephone monopoly covering most of the Eastern United
> > > States) has no interest in bothering with *any* investment in the
> > > copper infrastructure, including installing the DSLAMs needed to
> > > bring DSL (even cruddy DSL) to rural America. Also, the copper is
> > > old and is falling apart (for lack of1 proper maintainence)--
> > > people actually completely lose basic phone service when it rains.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > I'll second that, in fact I voted with my wallet 2 years ago when I
> > took offense at having to call the states PUC on my cell phone just
> > to get my pots phone working again for the 4th time, in April since
> > Jan 1.  Over 90 of those days I had no pots phone from vz. I've been
> > on cable for both phone and net for over 2 years now.  Verizon didn't
> > have a quarter to call anyone who cared.
> 
> Unfortunately for people in my area, Verizon is the *only* game in town:
> it is either Verizon's crappy (19th century) phone service or no phone
> service at all.  (There is no cable provider and no cell coverage at my
> house.)
> 
> > Cheers, Gene

Get political.  Heckle your states Public Service Commission.  There is 
always Hughes of course, but they want an arm & a leg per month.

Cheers, Gene
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