Good old Verizon. "It's damaged beyond repair." No, it's damaged beyond your WILLINGNESS to repair it. Those two are not the same fucking thing.
You want to provide a public service, you get to pay for it when it fucking fails. Verizon offering a shitty VoIP alternative is ridiculous. If the sewer system in a city breaks, is the sewage company going to offer plastic fucking bags as an alternative, because the system is "damaged beyond repair?"
Watch the FCC just fucking nod and agree, though. Corporate mouthpieces.