I don't know how that they could "ban" them. Copper provides DSL to DSL subscribers. Copper provides high speed internet through things such as "U-verse" which provides TV, high speed data, and telephone whether VOIP or TDM. So, I doubt that they could ban it.
I work for AT&T, and they have petitioned the commerce commissions in multiple states to allow them out of the landline business, as has Verizon, but in my opinion, they might want to be careful. Back in the day of divestature, better known as te breakup of Ma Bell, most blame the court, judge for that breakup, but in reality, it was AT&T that wanted nothing to do with local service. They only wanted to do long distance and special circuits. Problem with that is that the breakup that created the 7 RBOCs (Regoinal Bell Operating Companies), gave the 7 RBOCs opportunites to do things that left AT&T out in the cold, and internet access was one of them. That caused AT&T to do their best to get back into the business, but how since the 7 RBOCs owned all of the telephone cable? AT&T went out and started buying up TV cable company after TV cable company to provide...telephone service, and internet access, AND they darn near went broke doing it. SBC (Southwestern Bell) purchased AT&T to gain the internationally known name for a paltry $16 Billion, which was a fraction of what AT&T was worth before almost bankupting themselves, and we became AT&T. Good bad, or indifferent, thats the nuts on that one. So now, AT&T wants to get out of the landline business, and has even petitioned states to allow them to do so. Verizon did the same thing. Where I'm from in Indiana, I live in former Verizon territory. Verizon sold their cable, local landline business off to Frontier thinking that they got a good deal and Frontier bought a lemon. Frontier is cleaning up in high speed internet access using existing and upgraded copper, bless their hearts. I wish them the best. They were sold a Model-T and turned it into a turbocharged Masserati. Bless their hearts for working to make it work, as opposed to picking the caviar off of the plate and tosssing the rest of it into the garbage like others that I can think of.
I don't know how Michigan can ban landlines without banning the competition, cable TV. That would seem kind of unfair, so to speak. To me, that would be akin to banning John Deere tractors, but not Case IH. How do they do that?
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