I don&#x27;t think anyone in power really recognizes the day of reckoning that&#x27;s on the horizon w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t the copper in America&#x27;s soil.<p>The telcos are in a managed descent on all of the wiring that could easily deliver Internet.  It is too fucking expensive to maintain.  So the telcos are instead focusing on acquiring spectrum and hoping to deliver broadband over wireless.<p>But companies like Google, MSFT &amp; others are interfering with all of the spectrum moves of the carriers because they are (reasonably) concerned about WIFI interference that affects their product strategies.<p>So how will this play out?  Carriers will need the spectrum to deliver the Internet people want, but non-carriers are going to fight to prevent them from acquiring that spectrum.<p>I think we have a problem where the conflict over spectrum peaks specifically because of the rotting copper plant.  It is a very slowly percolating crisis.