Oh, come on. I live in MONTGOMERY COUNTY--the middle of Montgomery
County, Silver Spring to be exact, not the back of beyond. If the
telecoms can't service Montgomery County, we should all go after them
with torches and pitchforks.
I'm mainly concerned for people who can't live in Montgomery County,
but who must live in places where service is much poorer, is
nonexistent, or is beyond the financial means of most inhabitants.
To be quite frank about it, I see no reason why the FCC should let
the telecoms abolish landline service--which benefits the majority of
people in this country--for the benefit of supposed "progress", which
currently amounts to providing more toys--in the form of cellphone
bells and whistles--for the technologically pampered few, who can
certainly live quite well enough without such fripperies.
On Jan 2, 2010, at 3:43 PM, tjpa wrote:
On Jan 2, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
It helps everyone if there isn't an underclass that's excluded
from basic participation in society, because something that's
essential--like in this case a telephone--is no longer available.
Access to basic services with only modest means is particularly
important in a period of turmoil (like right now), when no one can
be sure of any kind of economic security.
Except that you have disadvantaged yourself by your own personal
choice and action. I would be with you 100% if they passed a law
that females could not apply for an Internet connection. But your
situation is very different. You made a free-will decision to live
in a location that can not be economically served. There are
consequences to that decision. I don't see any justification for
your demand that somebody else picks up the tab.
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