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lcnPylGDnU4H9OFtoday at 12:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

On this topic, phone lines are so ubiquitous that it is irresponsible for representative governments to continue to let private companies mess around with them. Doubly irresponsible to go from public to private after the increase in popularity.


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inigyoutoday at 12:35 PM

That was in the 2000s. Phone lines are an anomaly now but cellphones are not. The phone number is more like an ICQ number than an identifier of a physical connection, but is still regulated like the latter.

DANmodetoday at 1:23 PM

You don’t get to tell these people you pay they can’t double-dip as telco shareholders!