If you need to build a house or a business, you just MIGHT need copper to run electricity through your home or business.
And copper has been in short supply recently.
It makes sense to shutdown a dead technology and allow that copper to be reallocated to better use, whether in homes, business or EVs. And as much or more is going to new homes and business than to EVs.
I have no reason to believe anyone is ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā diwn existing powerlines retroactively.
What is being removed is the legal right to build a hunting camp on the ass of the earth then bevone liberal and entitled demanding companies erect hundreds of poles and hang mile afterile of new wire just someone demanded it.
Sounds like the place I grew up.
Our house was relatively modern but the only utility was electricity.
Elecricyty ran a pump we had our own well and septic and little or no TV reception.
We had an modern oil furnace but we used it like a backup and heated the house with wood.
We sure as hell were not the type of folks who would build miles from a main road and power line and then expect government to require a corporation to run an electric line to that (new) house for free.
Is there some law that says āYou cannot order XY or Zā except by the Internet?
What law?
If you need to order something online order it on a cell phone,
or order it at the library next time you are in town.
You can also order most things by mail or by telephone.
If I walk up to the attic I donāt demand my mom bring me dinner up there furthest thing from me would be to cry cry "unfair you just wnat me to sucki it and take a beating if she would not.
I have no cell reception where we live. Itās spotty at best everywhere around here due to the Verizon and Inland.Cellular tower fight and the mountains.
You also assume much about where I live. Tell me, how does a person renew their vehicle registration when there is no local dmv office and you are told online registration is how those in your county must now renew? That is out future here. We are about to lose this option and there are mamy who have no way or even understand how to do that. Not everyone is a millennial with a phone attached to them.
Then go to a library, church, friends house, govāt office or small business
just like you used to go to DMV (a govāt office) in person you can now access the internet elsewhere.
PS The only assumption I am making about you is that you are assuming when copper phone lines are removed or replaced, that will create some problem it is not.
There are millions of people in that circumstance. But it really doesnāt matter how many people. They are all Americans living the life they chose. You cut off their phone and Internet if you eliminate land lines. Are they to abandon their homes to stay in contact with the world? Who pays for that?