8 Ways Privatization Has Brought Pain and Misery to American Life

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2. For 7 mbps

of which I rarely ever see. Our Internet cost us $59.95 a month but since the telephone company makes us have to have a land line in order to have internet that adds another $19.95 to our bill. We only use the land line when someone calls us using it. Some how the telephone company, Fairpoint, gets by with stopping any one else other than cable or satelite from offering internet service here. Satelite is too expensive and cable sucks. Google has a data center two miles down the road from me here and they have free high speed internet in the town 10 miles from us but offer nothing to our town.
My wifes grand mother was the original owner of the telephone company here back in the late '40s through the late '50s when she sold it to the family who later sold it to fairpoint.