From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   conklin  wrote:   
   >"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>conklin  wrote:   
   >>>"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>>>conklin  wrote:   
      
   >>>>>The rural coopertives do better.  SkyBest in the Boone, NC area, has   
   >>>>>put in FIOS at my cabin, a place with such a view that only one house   
   >>>>>is visible, and that is in the distance. . . .   
      
   >>>>Yes, George. Must be lovely to have other people pay for your   
   >>>>infrastructure.   
      
   >>>You never know anything except how to be nasty.   
      
   >>Sorry you think the truth is nasty, but the ratepayers belonging to that   
   >>rural cooperative are NOT the ones paying for your infrastructure. That   
   >>would be paid for by a surcharge on fees on everyone else's phone bills   
   >>elsewhere in the country.   
      
   >>Do you really believe there's a business case for building a fiber plant   
   >>in a rural area?   
      
   >As the copper wire is abandoned everywhere, fiber optic is the only way to   
   >go.  I guess you only want phone service in your favorite urban areas.  But   
   >relax.  Under the current Republican leadership, we will soon abandon   
   >universal phone and mail service soon enough.  Then you can rejoice...but   
   >Amtrak will go away too.   
      
   Feel free to pay for the full cost of your own infrastructure. Whether   
   it's a copper plant or fiber plant is irrelevant.   
      
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