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[ NNSquad ] Read This: "How Verizon lets its copper network decay to force phone customers onto fiber"
Read This: "How Verizon lets its copper network decay to force phone customers onto fiber"
(Ars): http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/why-verizon-is-trying-very-hard-to-force-fiber-on-its-customers/
"But the FCC is on course to let Verizon, AT&T, and other phone
companies stop maintaining the old Public Switched Telephone Network
(PSTN) by around 2020, eventually moving everyone to Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service. This shift could come with a
loss of consumer protection rules such as price caps and "carrier of
last resort" obligations to provide wireline phone service to anyone
who asks for it. AT&T wants to substitute wireless for wired access in
about 25 percent of its territory."
- - -
I'll put it more bluntly. Verizon and AT&T -- and their slimy
third-party agents who call and call trying to convince you to
switch -- are liars of the first degree. Plain and simple. They care not
about service levels, or power during emergencies (during the last
earthquake here in L.A., the *only* thing that kept working through
prolonged power outages was copper -- everything else including
wireless was dead, dead, dead in a couple of hours). They don't want
to be simple access provider ISPs, they don't want to provide reliable
phone service, their whole profit model now is about giant mergers and
controlling Internet content -- and charging you up the gazoo for
services and channels you don't want. Meanwhile, thanks to their
friendly captured FCC and state governments, they'll push everyone
over to unreliable phone service that'll fall flat on its face the
next time there's a serious emergency. But hey, they'll be freed from
rate controls and public utilities boards and anything else that would
slow down their rush to the ultimate goal -- enriching their
management and mollifying their shareholders, while treating all of us
and the Internet at large as their personal fiefdoms. And you know what
that makes all of us.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein
Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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