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<p>I've read articles saying AT&T is planning on abandoning
their copper in rural areas when it fails and instead
transitioning landline customers in those reas to VOIP adapters
that will use their 4G network. Here in Tennessee there are lots
of hills and not so many people living around them. I know one
guy who lives between 2 hills and has no cell service at home.
When the landline goes down, he has to drive to the top of either
hill where he gets cell service to call AT&T. If they're
paying so little attention to their existing network, I can't
picture them spending a fortune to build the tower necessary to
provide service to all their customers out in the hills.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/18/20 3:03 PM, Thomas Scott via
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seems to be the grand irony of fiber - you can have a
nationwide backbone with thousands of Gb/s of bandwidth
running on your street, and as you said Jim - be a hundred
yards short of 25 Mbps. I don't buy a ton of the 5G <i>we're
going to fix all the things </i>but if fixed broadband
could become a reality in the mid-band spectrum, there might
be a new last mile in town (and I would move much farther out
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