re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg

I suspect there will come a day when traditional landlines are no more. I know some folks still swear by them but they are getting less and less common as people increasingly use VOIP and cell phones.

Don’t expect the telecoms to stop making requests to kill POTS.

2/3 of the nation has no cell service coverage (by area). They can request all they want. They will still be refused.

Also “the telephone of last resort” means your telephone still works when your power is out for three weeks (provided the lines weren’t destroyed).

Yesterday someone came in the library saying they’d just talked to a guy running a frightfully-expensive drone over the cell tower behind the general store which only covers US-26, to try to figure out why it wasn’t working.

Apparently today it’s still not working. Viero might get around someday to fixing a cell tower in an extremely rural area.