here's what I will tell you. the major carriers, #AT&T, #verizon and the other major carriers like #lumen and #fronteer will be sorry when a #giomagnetic #storm, and/or a #hurricane #katrina level event occurs and no one can call anyone anymore. #telecommunications was supposed to be a utility, not a cash grab. in fact, I worked for a gas station that literally ran on a #landline. so to lose the ability to make calls/receive calls to and from a landline because "property tax" and "it's too hard to maintain" is a stupid reason. in fact, the electricity requirements are very low, about 48v per call. you can literally runs several dusen calls with a hundred waughts as long as it can output 48v because the landlines only run at about 2/3v at any given time, and are pretty much on demand. and the #salt #typhoon #breech makes this fcc ruling even worse, because it's extremely bad timing. the remote management of #fiber connections with a computer is exactly the problem. you can't remotely get into a copper wired landline remotely from an office in beijing because it's physically impossible to do so. and the #property #tax / #taxes excuse? save the bowlshit! you are, in fact, causing even more of a proprty tax burden when you are running an #ai #datacenter or a fiber network because of not only the power required to run it, which is hundreds of times more than a copper line, but also the amount of power you are buying, which accounts for not just servers, but also NPU's, GPU's, bandwidth, etc. and you won a clamer running landline is expensive to maintain, yeah, fuck you, fellas at the #fcc . you'll be sorry when something like a nother hurricane Katrina level event happens and your customers bale on you because they don't have assurance that they can get connected with their families, let alone call #911 in crisis. reminds me of a song from #familyguy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ru0VHLumdI
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