People in densely populated areas are getting rid of their land lines in favor of cell phones.
There are fewer and fewer of these "densely populated" customers to make up the difference every year. In fact, there aren't even enough customers to make up the difference now, and haven't been in a few years.
Even businesses are dropping land lines in favor of VOIP, which uses their Internet data connection.
No amount of competition is going to fix this. Rural land lines are a money pit no matter how you look at them. NOBODY wants the business. NOBODY is going to fight over it. The carriers are playing a game of "HOT POTATO" with them only because they are mandated by government to provide them.
This is not greed. This is not evil corporate sharks in a board room looking for new ways to screw the little guy. This is simple dollars and cents.
So, do you favor letting businesses make sound business decisions, or do you want the government to force the businesses to run themselves into the ground to service rural land lines?
Instead of being a hypocrite and whining that the government should make more regulations, someone should do the American thing and come up with an affordable reliable alternative to land lines for rural customers.
In Alaska, they have "radio telephones" for remote homesteaders.
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