In the US, it's locally monopolized with a single provider.
Sometimes you can get DSL, but since Verizon employees get fired for fixing outages now, that will be gone soon.
Sometimes you can get DSL, but since Verizon employees get fired for fixing outages now, that will be gone soon.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/verizo...
"The wireless home phone service, VoiceLink, is not a proper replacement for copper phone lines because it doesn’t work with security alarms, fax machines, medical devices such as pacemakers that require telephone monitoring, and other services, the union said."
Really? Verizon should be maintaining and repairing obsolete infrastructure so people can keep using fax machines? GMAFB.