re: #14 Anymouse 🌹

Well, I have a monopoly Internet provider and already pay nearly 10% of my disability to have service. If they jack up the prices here, I won’t be able to afford it any more.

My local ILEC (AT&T) managed to buyoff get legislation introduced that allowed them to no longer support POTS lines -and by extension, DSL (which this residence used to have-but no more.)

And Charter/Spectrum went out last Friday night for an extended period of time - had I not been primary on-call (which happens once every 4 weeks) I would have been up shit’s creek without a paddle. Now I’m forced to keep Verizon Wireless as a backup but even the Jetpack’s signal in my neck of the woods is sub-par. I ordered an external antenna for the Jetpack and hope that will solve some of the reception issues should this happen again - if it doesn’t, then I’m going to have to shell out some $300 for a cell signal-booster.

I may just go ahead and do that anyway so I can ditch AT&T’s lousy 3G femto-cell….