That&#x27;d be fine if this was just voice. <i>Unfortunately</i>, they&#x27;re also failing to maintain landline internet, which is a much bigger deal. You can&#x27;t do your homework on a phone. You can&#x27;t download updates over a phone&#x27;s internet connection. You can&#x27;t run a game console over a phone&#x27;s internet. You can&#x27;t get print forms or paperwork with a phone. It&#x27;s not just internet access that&#x27;s a requirement - it&#x27;s <i>usable</i> internet access, and phone internet is not incredibly usable. Tethering is an option, but it often costs something like $30 a month, and even then phone plans, even the $70-a-month &#x27;unlimited&#x27; ones, start hitting caps at 5gb or 10gb. What the fuck can you do with 5gb? You can wipe that out with software updates <i>alone</i>.<p>Offering cellular is unacceptable. If they can&#x27;t put in fiber, they need to maintain the copper.<p>(source: comcast took three weeks to fix the internet in our apartment before we just terminated our plan and switched to another provider - lucky use we weren&#x27;t fucked into only having a single option - spent a week trying to survive on phone internet before putting in the work to do tethering)