atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums General Telecom News State Laws Allowing End of Land-Line Service.

That could hurt a lot of people.

Many remote areas that will be the first to lose landlines may not be able to get reliable cell service.

That is really sad...I guess I'm sentimental as I broke into the Bell System working on C-wire, Bird-wire, iton wire and such in the rural area's of Ohio...Feel sorry for some of the folks in the hills where cell service is poor at best !!!!

...bob...

I can just see my FD Dispatch center runing on Optimum voice and skype LOL

We still have Verizon land line and rely on dual apperance to run a backup office. The dual option is not avaiable on any other service.

We thought of using remote call fowarding but would need to transfer at least 10 lines under conditions that may be our most busy period (storms, flooding etc)

The public tends to complain when the FD or PD do not answer their phones.

Competition will bring more services? Yeah right. All that will happen is that the rates for whatever customers can get will go through the roof.

What this is all about is regulated subscriber rates. With the requirements being dropped, the mandated rates will also go away.

OK, OK, so there MAY be competition in some areas for wired telephone service. I can agree with that and there is a chance that some subscribers in those areas may benefit. Still, I see the subscribers in the now unregulated areas getting the sharp stick in the eye.

For decades, our government has provided a means for nearly everyone in this country to receive electricity and telephone service. They've done this with much smaller government.

Now that we have record-breaking government (with regard to size), we are losing things that have been household staples forever. What is wrong with this picture?

I still have to wonder. Let's say that Verizon is no longer required to provide service in Richmond, IN (actually, I believe that they've already sold that former GTE territory to Fairpoint). Let's go one step further and follow Verizon's typical course of action and they close up their wired shop in that city. Who will provide the wired infrastructure to the existing (grandfathered) subscribers?

If I understand this whole scenario, ILECs can literally walk away from their regulated requirement to provide basic wired service once the state lifts this requirement. Maybe I'm missing something here?

As I understand the report, RBOCs can walk away if there are 2 alternatives present. To me, taxes and seemingly endless tacked-on fees are speeding up the disconnection of land lines.

We do a lot of work here in MN with Charter for their voice service...Their big thing is all about "build cost" if the cost to get service to an area is more than they want to spend or can make off the customer..they drop out of the picture..Flat out refuse to provide service to the customer or area !!! It still is and always has been " All about the money"

...bob... :shrug:

Comcast, Verizon & RCN are the same way in the towns that they service. Areas that appear to present a poor RoI, get the "dark zone" label slapped on them.

Wonder what will happen in the countys that require a building fire alarms primary connection to be wired POTS, no VOIP allowed.