To: The Pennsylvania State House, The Pennsylvania State Senate, and Governor Tom Wolf
Verizon Pennsylvania Denial of Service
Governor Wolf,
We need your help in holding this monopolistic corporation accountable for wasting billions in PA taxpayer subsidies through the BFRR program. Thousands of rural citizens in the commonwealth suffer from terrible service, ignored maintenance requests, and general disrepair of the copper wire line which supplies their only option for high-speed internet.
VZ accepted taxpayer money to provide this service over a decade ago - if they no longer wish to provide it reliably, as their lack of action appears to indicate - they need to have their right of ownership over the PA wire line rescinded.
We need your help in holding this monopolistic corporation accountable for wasting billions in PA taxpayer subsidies through the BFRR program. Thousands of rural citizens in the commonwealth suffer from terrible service, ignored maintenance requests, and general disrepair of the copper wire line which supplies their only option for high-speed internet.
VZ accepted taxpayer money to provide this service over a decade ago - if they no longer wish to provide it reliably, as their lack of action appears to indicate - they need to have their right of ownership over the PA wire line rescinded.
Why is this important?
You should be concerned about this issue because YOUR tax dollars were pocketed by a corporation concerned only with its own stock price and rolling out new wireless technologies in urban areas. Verizon has ignored its obligation to rural Pennsylvania (and New Jersey, and New York, and many other states) for too long. They either need to sell their wireline to someone who will take care of it, or do it themselves.
This monopoly needs to be held accountable for its waste of taxpayer dollars.
This monopoly needs to be held accountable for its waste of taxpayer dollars.