FCC Fines Verizon $5 Million for Failed Rural Calls

Let's be real, I had Verizon and lived just outside city limits at the time. It wasn't even a typical rural area, this was a large residential area that had been developed for decades. There was nothing wrong with my signal and call quality in the beginning, but by the time I moved away (about 4yrs later), I could not get a call. Several of my neighbors (also Verizon customers) had the same issue. I had to walk out to the street to make a call, and there we would all be, lined up at the edge of the road, in a long line... it looked like a bad commercial. Verizon received call after call, complaint after complaint, but refused to even provide hope... or any explanation.