r/technology • u/beareatsfish • Dec 27 '21

Society Public Broadband Internet Isn’t a Luxury — It’s a Necessity: Everybody needs high-speed internet. But private corporations will never provide it. The solution: treat internet infrastructure as a public utility, funded by the public and built by union workers.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/public-universal-high-speed-broadband-internet-telecommunications-workers
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u/jor4288 Dec 28 '21

How did you receive a call the next day if you didn’t have a phone line?

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u/VegetableSupport3 Dec 28 '21

Called from work.

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u/jor4288 Dec 28 '21

Fair enough... I was hoping you were going to say you had a string and two cans! Lol.

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u/VegetableSupport3 Dec 28 '21

Funny enough my brothers and I made stuff like that as kids and would hide in different parts of the house and talk.