I have always had electricity and water. No sewer, but my septic system provides totally comparable service at a low operating cost.
Did not get landline internet until three years ago. It's 5mbps and no caps, so I'm okay with it (not enough bandwidth for streaming, but fast enough for overnight torrent session to catch up with what I missed).
My problem there is not with the FCC so much as it is with my @&$@*!@# county government that gave the local cable a company a monopoly which exempted them from having to run service any further than 150' from the road. I've been working on that without success.
My issue with the FCC is anything they do which puts more bandwidth under the control of the current mobile industry cronies rather than opening up more competition and better cheaper service.
“My problem there is not with the FCC so much as it is with my @&$@*!@# county government that gave the local cable a company a monopoly which exempted them from having to run service any further than 150’ from the road. I’ve been working on that without success.
My issue with the FCC is anything they do which puts more bandwidth under the control of the current mobile industry cronies rather than opening up more competition and better cheaper service.
So cutting to the chase, your problem is with “the government,” at two levels. I am seriously perturbed by the lack of action on the part of the FCC with respect to telemarketers. They make my land-line phone ( which is actually now VOIP ) nearly unusable, or more correctly unanswerable. Plus, unlike my cell phone, blocking calls is difficult enough so as to make it a non-issue. The telcos don’t give a $hit about the individual subscriber (ditto for the cable companies), as they go about making money selling access to telemarketers which allows them to abuse their customers. So they are making money both ways while they leave the individual subscriber with a phone that is ringing constantly. With robo dialers and the ability to “create” phone numbers to use to call you, there isn’t even a mechanism to report the abuses. I’ve written to this FCC Head Commissioner, Agit Pai ( a Trump Appointee I might ad) about the issue but get no response. So we might as well ask for the FCC to be disbanded and save the money they consume.