On Sunday 12 August 2012 17:33:01 Robert Heller did opine: > 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
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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! "Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the blink again." -- Marvin The Paranoid Android _______________________________________________ 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
