Posted by mkirsch on September 06, 2013 at 11:19:45 from (64.80.110.75):
In Reply to: O.T. Awe come on! posted by LOU from Wi. on September 05, 2013 at 11:54:54:
I know it feels good to rabble on about the bad phone company service, but you gotta remember that land line phone service is a dying technology.
Phone companies are losing residential customers by double-digit percentage points every year because people find that they can get along just fine with only their cell phones.
The bulk of the customers left are the ones in remote locations where cell phones don't work well, and those are the most expensive to service.
They can't appreciably raise the phone rates on the remaining customers or they'll lose them ALL.
They're businesses and have to at the very least break even over time or they will cease to exist, so they have to economize where they can.
Believe me, I work in the phone business. They would just as soon drop all the residential customers because they are a huge financial LOSS year after year.
Even old "Ma Bell" would be hurtin' bad right now. They'd be looking to Congress for taxpayer $$$ support.
Something's gotta give.
1. You pay a LOT more,
2. or the phone company cuts what it can to keep the money hemorrhaging to a minimum,
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