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Special Report: Big Phone and Cable Companies Are Losing Your Calls to Rural America
http://stopthecap.com/2014/08/28/special-report-big-phone-and-cable-companies-are-losing-your-calls-to-rural-america/
Special Report: Big Phone and Cable Companies Are Losing Your Calls to Rural America
Phillip Dampier August 28, 2014
Big cable and telephone companies have opened a new digital divide by losing your long distance calls to rural America to save a buck.
The problems have grown so pervasive, a FCC investigation found some of America’s biggest providers are sending some of their long distance calls destined for rural communities across the U.S. through shady, fly-by-night third-party operators in Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan, Bulgaria and Romania before the phone ever starts ringing on the other end. If it ever starts ringing on the other end.
In Addison County, Vt., State Representative Will Stevens knows all about it. When not representing the people of rural Shoreham, he is running Golden Russet Farm, highly dependent on his landline to deal with customers.
“Phone calls here get cut off,” he told the Addison County Independent. “Or they don’t go through at all. So many times I’ve called elsewhere and you just don’t know if the call is going through, it goes dead. It rings then goes dead. You can’t tell how many times it’s rung on the other end if at all.”
It’s even worse when callers get a recording stating the number is no longer in service.
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Special Report: Big Phone and Cable Companies Are Losing Your Calls to Rural America
Phillip Dampier August 28, 2014
Big cable and telephone companies have opened a new digital divide by losing your long distance calls to rural America to save a buck.
The problems have grown so pervasive, a FCC investigation found some of America’s biggest providers are sending some of their long distance calls destined for rural communities across the U.S. through shady, fly-by-night third-party operators in Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan, Bulgaria and Romania before the phone ever starts ringing on the other end. If it ever starts ringing on the other end.
In Addison County, Vt., State Representative Will Stevens knows all about it. When not representing the people of rural Shoreham, he is running Golden Russet Farm, highly dependent on his landline to deal with customers.
“Phone calls here get cut off,” he told the Addison County Independent. “Or they don’t go through at all. So many times I’ve called elsewhere and you just don’t know if the call is going through, it goes dead. It rings then goes dead. You can’t tell how many times it’s rung on the other end if at all.”
It’s even worse when callers get a recording stating the number is no longer in service.
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