Is that the copper that the Bell company runs through my yard on the way to the neighbors' houses down the street? When is the Bell company going to start paying rent for using my property?
Oh wait - the Bell companies only want a law the exempts them from having to share their property - not mine.
If they won't compensate me for their use of my property, the least they could do is improve their crappy service. But they refuse to do so.
Personally, I think SBC should be busted up into state units, the 100-year-old voice grade standard should be phased out quickly, and high-speed digital standards mandated.
It's a right of way. When you brought that property odds are it was sold with that right of way in it. Bell can't decree itself a right of way without consent of the owner. And if they got it that means someone before you gave it to them.
A agree we do need to scrap the voice standard and most Bell companies do havew the money to go with broadband standard in a few years. BellSouth has alone 724 billion in assets it could put up. But the thing is it's about return on their investment.
When the Telco's get treated the same way as the cable companies then you'll get better service. There are no ridiculous laws mandating cable companies sell their bandwidth to their competitor for 75-80%. And since they came up with surent regulations before cable modems they get a free pass on that too from the Feds.
It's simple. Tell the feds to lay off and bell can get you a lot better service. Don't believe me? fine. But the FCC mandates parity in Bell service and that of resellers. If Bell can't reduce the problems that the customers of resellers get how do you think they get parity? They just swing more resources and time into maintaining the reseller's customers and let their Bell customers suffer.
By this logic, we can assume you'd like the water, electric and gas services removed from your property as well? Maybe you should be the one to move... to the top of some godforsaken mountain in the middle of nowhere... nobody would bother you with those pesky modern conveniences.