Yes, this is another editorial. I'm not an editor of anything except these pages, but that still makes it an editorial. Yes - maybe we complained a little about rates and lack of competition. Guess what - now that we have competition, it seems that no one can compete with even the old standard for service. I don't care about fiber optics or microwave links - they're all nonsense when it comes down to the question of service.
Optical fibers are the hands-down winner.
For the telcos it is. They're getting swamped with new service requests - new multiple lines in lots of houses, FAX machines, cell phones, pagers, etc. etc. etc. I think service is the real question. We in New England are about to get a few new area codes. No big deal, there.