I suspect that opinions like this will seem quaint a couple of decades from now. The issue is how much of a subsidy rural landline telephone companies should receive, since they (understandably) have higher costs due to the less dense nature of their customers.
I imagine that, in short order, cellular and satellite companies will have largely (if not entirely) replaced these entities. Making this opinion seem the modern day equivalent of disputes about subsidies for buggy whip manufacturers.
If it doesn't seem that way already.
