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 Review by N10Cities 
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updated 270 days ago
 Lavaca,Sebastian,AR
 $87 per month- (12 month contract)
 about 1 days "Reliability of connection, locally owned and operated" "None" "Currently the only FTTP provider in Arkansas..."
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This service is offered via an independent Telephone Company in Lavaca, AR called Pinnacle Communications. Their Internet connectivity is provided thru World Lynx out of Little Rock, AR.
Pinnacle Communications - www.pinncom.com - recently rolled out the only FTTH Telephone/Internet service in the state of Arkansas. They initially had two levels of Internet Speeds - Premier (512/256 kbps) & Elite (5/2 mbps), but now are offering much higher rates in addition to these two (see bottom of review for speed levels.)
Price of service including bundled telephone service with all the goodies (caller-id, call waiting, voicemail, etc) is only around $64 / month after taxes, etc kicked in. Also have 100 minutes of Nationwide Long Distance thrown in, but I use my cell for that. Still, nice touch.
Although I haven't seen Verizon's equipment first hand, I believe Pinnacle uses similar equipment as far as ONT and UPS. According to Google searches on Pinnacle's rollout, they use GPON equipment
The day I signed up, the tech came out to my new place and had the UPS already installed and connected in anticipation of getting the service ready. For Internet, they run a Cat5 drop to wherever in the house you wish.
Currently, they do not offer television service, but they can if they choose to and are looking at the possibility. If they offered better programming than Cox when they decide to do so, I'll definitely sign up...
They have no download or upload restrictions at this time (it is a small town so not many users to saturate the backhaul), and they have no problems with you running a personal web server as long it is not for a business, so may start tinkering with those a bit.
UPDATE 11-21-2008: MEGA Internet speed tiers available now. Here are the levels offered in addition to the two mentioned earlier.
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I am currently running the 20/2 Tier. Speeds are solid any time of the day and are VERY useful for downloading service packs, media, streaming video, etc. Video streams are very solid with no dropped packets or frames. (Still wish they would offer TV.)
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