Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934

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24. Now lets get on re-regulating phones

Why is basic phone service so expensive and complicated. Why do basic users always have to subsidize the company's move into"future" tech for Cadillac users? Why do people on welfare with ZERO income only get discounted landline service instead of fully subsidized phone service when this is a basic necessity? Why is the phone company allowed to add infinite parcel fees and blame the government, arousing public hostility toward "taxes"?

Frack these jackasses - they used their monopoly on landline infrstructure to crush all DSL competition, and now they want out of landlines and DSL all together because the markup is higher on wireless. Perhaps we should hand basic wire telecom over to the post office to run as a fallback national utility. Then let those fat cat parasite corps eat each other over wireless. In other words give poor people the "public option" of a landline and public standard dsl. Rich peole can then buy high speed wifi with bells and whistles.

Public Options are not "big government"- if they use their scale efficiency correctly and embrace their mission for the public good, they bring down prices for everyone by providing a low price reference point and preventing monopoly manipulation. They could also provide thousands of jobs in direct employment in businesses that at least partially support themselves.