Kentucky bill may help hang up landline phone service

[ShawnCowden]

Off topic but what do you all think about this bill ?

Landline telephone service has become so old-fashioned in today’s wireless world that telecom giant AT&T has called it a relic “of a bygone era.”

A bill pending before the Kentucky General Assembly could hasten the service’s decline.

Kentucky bill may help hang up landline phone service | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com

 

[benjaminfs733]

“I’d say that a person should be entitled, for safety precautions and public health, (to have) a landline,”

---Wow what a quote. I guess we should pay for it too. Oh wait we already do. I think it is crazy to have these laws in the first place and even crazier to continue to force a company to pay steep prices for a service that will not make them money. Allowing private companies to invest capital the way it believes will work best is eventually a win win for everyone. We will never have anything 100% (coverage, cheap price, dependability, accurate 911 location service, everyone has it, etc.) However, keeping a company from using funds to build an antiquated system does not help the situations. I raises prices and reduces the number of new towers, etc. that could be built.

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[voxiso]

Sounds like AT&T and Verizon are having luck paying off some of the Kentucky government