Normally, I'm the first to scream bloody murder about AT&T and their shenanigans, but I wonder what the author's point is to be honest. In the first case, he s

Normally, I'm the first to scream bloody murder about AT&T and their shenanigans, but I wonder what the author's point is to be honest. In the first case, he seems to be decrying IP regulation and wishing us back to a non-IP world (which we haven't been in since the dawn of DSL). In the second case, he seems to believe that having copper telephone service is essential to survivability for the elderly. The latter point is more apt and the former has had little bearing for almost 20 years. No, what the author should've said, instead of keep copper alive, was "let's regulate IP communications". The US suffers because of a lack of modern common carriage laws, and we will continue to lag in technical development until this problem is fixed. Forget copper, stop fighting a war from the 80's. Let's regulate IP.