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This is why tax dollars should not buy networks. The local government becomes a pressure point of lobbying and isolated public outcry over content issues.

This is not necessarily an argument that all networks should be owned and operated by corporations. Quite to the contrary: user financed networks are also an option, wherein I buy and own my last 100 or 1000 feet of network and connect to a neutral, competitive backbone.

But letting politicians decide what can and cannot travel over the network is a bad idea, and results in what you see being determined by the highest bidder.

For the second month since I instituted measured service on my residential line, I have saved $7.00. And I haven’t changed my local calling behavior to any appreciable degree. The only calling pattern that would even remotely put the savings at risk is my better half extended talking on the phone to her friend — who lives across the street. But even that isn’t impacting the monthly bill. Interesting that the only calls on the radar are to a destination less than 200 feet feet away.

What now strikes me about my “new bill” is that 46% is tax. 46 cents out of every dollar on my bill goes to something other than the service for which I pay.

[tags]phonegnome,verizon[/tags]