Should Data Connections Be Considered Essential Like a Utility?

Thursday, 02. 4. 2010  –  Category: T2 Communications

Every month, we get the usual round of bills at home.  For most, there is the electrical and the gas bill.  Most pay for trash and perhaps water.  Likely you either you have a mortgage payment to make or rent to deliver.  Combined with our food tab for the month, these are considered “essential” services for our existence.

And then there is data.

For the purposes of this article, data is any connection you pay for over which communication is delivered.  For some that still means copper phone lines.  It also means cable or satellite service, internet connections, wireless (cell phone) service and any other devices like VoIP that you pay for to create your experience.  They come from one provider or three, and like clockwork they…