----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Tetherow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Copper landlines gone by 2013
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.
Why? Its not like those customers won't have service - just not
service through Verizon. Plenty of companies waiting out there to
purchase phone pops, no matter how rural.
The latest sc... I mean plan... is for a group to form made up
of minorities, who apply for federal funds, and purchase a rural
telco area. Then they contract with one of the existing Telcos
to "manage" the service.
The company that ends up "managing" of course sets the whole
thing up - so that they get cheap money.
Like you say, copper is not going away
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