On 2022-11-25 09:29, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 08:31:14PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
The question becomes how long do you expect the companies to maintain obsolete plant. The world has been moving to fibre and IP for years.
I am OK with them wanting to upgrade to more reliable and better equipment. The fact that they can have a monopoly on service in an area and not be required to resell access to other ISPs I have a problem with especially when they won't even offer the services some people want (like static IPs and such).
It would be much better if the local infrastructure was a public utility and then you bought service to run on it from the provider of your choice.
I am not anti-progress. But if it was real progress, reliability would exceed that of POTS, the cost would be cheaper and I could rely on the service working even in an emergency. -- Michael Galea