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- Many poles are owned by power companies, or telephone companies. You can absolutely get a JPA (joint pole attach) agreement with most of these companies in theory.
- In practice, your first problem is that most poles are horribly maintained. And if you are a new attachee, you will often find yourself having to share in the cost to make an already non-compliant pole compliant and with enough room for you to attach.
- If you are dealing with, say, Verizon poles and are trying to attach for a competing cell service, your make ready costs are oddly inflated, and they may go as far as expect you to split the cost 50/50 for a pole that is already out of spec.
- In many municipalities, the kickbacks of 'franchise agreements' cause a lot of inertia. This is mostly the case with CATV, the industry of 'how can we be minmax our monopoly'. Essentially, the cable provider pays the city X dollars per subscriber, gives them a couple public access channels, and in return gets exclusivity.
I used to do HFC design for Xfinity Fraudband, as well as fiber design/permitting for other CATV providers and cell carriers. Its a corrupt and abusive industry, the entire contractor/subcontractor system is made to shield the companies both from overall liability as well as prevent unionization.
Also, any of the SV folks speaking up about social injustice would have a heart attack in a week or two. Being in that climate for so long made me numb to a lot of injustice, and it took years to recover.
IF all of that is true (and if i misunderstood, please correct me!) It would make the most sense to give it to higher risk individuals first.
Call me cynical, but "Advertise your product for a use that your core moneymaking market doesn't do" would be a good dark pattern to avoid scrutiny/regulation.
The upshot of this however is that, if you are being honest in your profile, these things are things that you want to do anyway.
If you still take the effort to talk to the person before going on a booked trip, it should be an experience you will enjoy.
Of course, things can go wrong. But part of any relationship is taking that risk.
I don't think this is a silver bullet, no, but I think it is a pretty good framework for people who are in a good place to find in a healthy relationship. I.e. comfortable and honest with themselves and looking for a partner to enrich their lives rather than just seeking 'a relationship' (i.e. trying to fill some other void in themselves).
Because in the past, some courts have ruled that ADTS systems are in violation even if their qualifying functions are unused.
Iow even id a dependent manually entered numbers, it would still be illegal to make the call.
And yes, this has made TCPA rulings a subject worthy of its own blog, the situation is such a mess.
At least in the US, there are more systems in place to help people who are behind. Lenders are more apt to do a modification then risk another market collapse.
And, I would be willing to bet our current administration will be happy to do what they can. A failure to contain the situation will not be good for them -or- their donors.
One thing we are already seeing; the CFPB is putting in safeguards in that will likely delay a number of foreclosures even further [0]. Another change is FHFA loans being eligible for interest rate reductions that wouldn't be possible under the LTV.
How this 'smoothing' plays out remains to be seen.
[0] https://www.housingwire.com/articles/cfpbs-roadmap-for-the-f...