Re:Craziness (Score 5, Interesting)

I live in Monticello and know how TDS has been strangling our town with high telephone rates and extremely terrible service. I have no love or loyalty for TDS. For example if you live in Minneapolis you can call Monticello free of charge. To live in Monticello you are forced to pay a toll charge or buy a more expensive phone package to get access to 612, 651 or 952 exchanges. People in Monticello have been forced to pay for service at rates and fees far above what all our surrounding neighbors have to pay. The real interesting thing about this situation is that the choice to put a city owned fiber loop and allow the city to compete with TDS was voted on by the residents of our city. We democratically voted for the city to compete against TDS. The majority of people in Monticello do not like doing business with TDS and when given the opportunity to choose another service provider we did. We do not need to be saved from ourselves as TDS would state but from the high costs and poor service from a company who has really overstayed their welcome in my town and used their monopoly to rape our pocketbooks. It is interesting that TDS did not start trying to upgrade their services or attempt to bring the population of Monticello any REAL modern services until the city started to make their move to bring fair and honest services to our community.