Let's be clear here. It is AT&T that wants to discontinue landline service. The bill in the Michigan legislature was written by AT&T lobbyists for the benefit of AT&T. It would allow AT&T and other phone companies to discontinue Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) with 90 days notice after 2017. It will probably sail through the legislature, since the current state house and senate rubber-stamp every bill business lobbyists put in front of them.
AT&T has wanted to dump POTS for a long time. It's expensive to maintain and they're required to lease lines to their competitors. In rural areas they have no incentive to upgrade their service. (I've been waiting for over 15 years for DSL, and we're technically in a metropolitan area.) In urban areas phone companies face competition from cable TV and data service providers. Getting rid of POTS will cut their costs and put competing local service companies out of business. Nice.
I have mixed feeling about the loss of landline service. Ours has been consistently bad for years. On the other hand, when the blackout hit a few years back out, our landline continued to work while cell service quit within a few minutes of the blackout. Most of the calls on our landline are telemarketers, but it's still nice to have a number that isn't going to ring our cell phones.
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