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In the U.S. rural telecoms access has always existed because of government mandates supported in part by government subsidies and taxes. It would definitely be
by saas_co_de 9y ago
In the U.S. rural telecoms access has always existed because of government mandates supported in part by government subsidies and taxes.
It would definitely be more profitable to drop support for large parts (land mass, not population) of the U.S. entirely.
- maltalex 9y agoSo the maintenance costs are driving this?
- VectorLock 9y agoThe article says it all. They want to eliminate their rural workforce. When you have a massive area, sparsely populated, you have to over staff because it takes so long for a technician to drive from one job to another.
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- abalashov 9y ago> In the U.S. rural telecoms access has always existed because of government mandates supported in part by government subsidies and taxes. Indeed, and the same is true of other places where wireline telephone service is universal or substantially universal. Wireline telephone service is something that should be thought of as akin to electrification or public transportation. It is unlikely to have happened guided solely by private sector profit imperatives.