At Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:12:37 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@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 -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
