What Verizon and ATT want is several things. They want unregulated metered service and they want CWA and IBEW dead. I see where Verizon Wireless retail workers at a Brooklyn store have organized but as far as I know 100% of the technical side of the Wireless house is non union. The same is true for Verizon Enterprise formerly MCI and World Comm. Enterprise offers special circuits on copper and fiber optics that is non regulated. They also have a massive fiber optic network that they use to carry data all over the nation.
Wireline in Texas anyway has been systematically destroyed. People have turned to cell service in desperation as a once extremely dependable service is becoming a nightmare with outages long and increasing. I am sure that the situation is no different in other parts of Verizon's footprint. I guess we will turn to people like my son (a ham operator) once again in times of disaster when cell service will fail and there are no landlines to fall back upon.
The transportation, communication, power grid and financial infrastructure of the United States was once the envy of the world is now a shambles. It is all in the hands of greedy investors who only want to make a buck and care nothing about serving the public.
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