I don&#x27;t understand this issue of &quot;rotting copper plant&quot;. My home has original Illinois Bell wiring. It is 40 years old. My phones (and DSL, when I had it) work fine. One of the things my ever-increasing phone bill is supposed to go to is maintenance on the plant in the ground. The fact that AT&amp;T or Verizon would rather spend this maintenance money on new wireless hardware doesn&#x27;t automatically make it &quot;too fucking expensive to maintain&quot;. This is the line of b.s. used to justify <i>letting</i> the copper plant decay.