[OT] Verizon/FairPoint sale (was: Comcast!?!?)

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> Couldn't some combination of wireless and VOIP make POTS
> redundant/unnecessary?  Doesn't it already?

Not even a little bit.  Drive north of Concord NH and it starts to
fall out in waves.

> I noticed Verizon doesn't want to ditch its wireless service (a separate
> company).  I'm assuming that Comcast serves the whole state and that their
> VOIP services are available everywhere, but that could be a bad assumption.

Would this be the same Comcast who doesn't offer ~any~ services as
close as Lyndyborough and Mason?

> I just wonder, if POTS went away tomorrow, what would that mean in terms of
> its effect on residents and commercial businesses?  I think it wouldn't
> affect me all that much because I have VOIP and cell phones.  But I think
> other folks here probably have a lot more insight.
>
> Anyone?

POTS is still there because it's resilliant as hell, and for all of
the individual complaints that people may have with "the phone
company" it's rarely something to do with picking up the phone and
getting a dial-tone.  I've had more electrical outages in the past
year then I have had telephone service out.

Wireless is not nearly as all-encompassing as we think...  I live in
Nashua and yeah, great coverage...  I head out to my buddies house in
Allenstown and on my Verizon phone can't seem to find signal and
eventually kills itself looking...


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