Telco wants to end basic service (and rip off the consumer)

[Pigeon]

There is a bill pending in the Kentucky State Senate that would eliminate almost all Public Service Commission oversight over local phone companies. Written by AT&T lobbyists, SB135 is being pushed by the phone companies as a 'modernization' of rules. It would keep the PSC from investigating phone service on its own and eliminate rules concerning price discrimination, price increases, required published rates, and performance objectives. It also will prevent any state agency from imposing net neutrality, and will enable phone companies to use the fact that there are cell phones to refuse to run a land line. The text of the bill is available online.

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Please remove all the regs and let us do what we want. Calling all telco lobbyists....

[Mungodave]

I dont think there is an industry on this planet not trying this crap on.

[Hazelnut]

[Ozfactor]

Maybe they are forcing us to evolve. I think it's high time we exercise our true powers and practice telepathy.