Sam,
My guess is these areas will be sold off to the smaller regional
companies with less overhead or they will muscle the states into footing
the bill. As someone once said "No one wants to be in office when the
copper networks go dark."
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
Sam Tetherow wrote:
I don't deny any of that, but I'd be pretty pissed as a telco customer
if they are allowed to pull out of those areas. A very large amount
of money has been funneled through the USF program so that voice lines
are available in the hinterlands.
How many millions of USF dollars has Verizon pulled out of their
Northern New England customers? I would be very willing to bet that
it is significantly more than they have spent on maintaining the
copper to those customers.
Yes the rural areas a losing money which is why the USF existed in the
first place, someone decided that all telco customers should fund
voice to every home regardless of its economic viability. Right or
wrong, that was the deal they signed on for, they have taken the money
for this long but now when they are having to make sizable
reinvestment they are trying to weasel their way out of it.
However, the real point of my reply on the email was that some
customers are still more economically served via copper rather than
wireless.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
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