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Mmmm, but sometimes I've contemplated the hypothetical worst case scenarios for having to support a copper/fiber plant deployment, and what that might actually look like, once you get out into the residential field. I'm not saying I'm casting a sympathetic eye toward conglomerate post-monopoly abominations like Verizon & AT&T. Far from it. What I am saying is that as nerds, we really only want to think it looks like this: this video link But actually, it's more often closer to waiting tables for no tips, in homes consumed by pet smells, infested by perverts, losers and arm chair quarterbacks, pissed off that they've elected to pay for systems that can still suffer outages, just like any vaguely fault-tolerant network. Sometimes, as a subscriber of such systems, the faults hit you. That's kind of what this article is drawing your eye toward. You wonder: "How the fuck can a business seemingly employ only monsters, operate policies concocted from purest evil, offer zero options, get propped up as a monopoly by the worst parts of government funding and compliance, and still turn a profit where so many other business would instantly implode and vaporize?" Part of the answer is that like airlines, they offer essential services to the general public, such that modern civilization may function, and enjoy utilities nearly as valuable as hot water, and they know it . But, the other part is that in order to interface with the gears of a transmission, contact must transmit the forces of t