TKJunkMail
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4 edits |  Nice to see business going to US companies and citizens
Nice to see some business that has mostly gone to India or Pakistan or China or Ireland coming to US companies and US citizens. If American workers are still going to have a shot at a Middle Class lifestyle, the higher paid tech jobs have to stay in the US and not be exported overseas. See this interactive map to see where jobs were being outsourced to: »www.cio.com/offshoremap/
Also, setting up in rural areas brings a potential pool of educated employees who usually have a good work ethic.
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prack
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Columbus, OH | Companies that are Rural Sourcing
And check out »www.ruralsource.com/ for an example of a US company that is helping to pull this together.
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Techman21
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Richmond, VA
| ...until the telcos come in
These types of deals won't last long as rural areas develop and the big 4 come in to put them out of business.
Also keep in mind that these companies still pay fees to the likes of Verizon, Sprint, AT&T for the backbone.
I work for a small ISP and can't begin to tell you the things the telco has done in the past. Granted most of these things aren't purposeful, but the way in which the treated the issues was horrible. |
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nightdesigns
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| It really has taken off there.
I have family that lives in Wintrhop and in the past few years they've received high speed internet. Actually, they had high speed internet before they had cell coverage.
Most of it is fueled there because a lot of the execs from Microsoft and the Seattle Times have weekend homes there. Since the addition of bandwith, several companies have moved in and a few call centers are in the works. It has actually helped the economy quite a bit in what was a tourist town.
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dks7
join:2004-05-31 | I live in Okanogan county and know its wireless privider by heart ncidata.com which in my opinion is way over priced and always has been. Now we have cable and dsl options yet people still continue to use the wireless. |
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Re: ...until the telcos come in
Those businesses up the valley (Methow) are mostly serviced by the Okanogan County Public Utility District's Telecom division.
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firephoto
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Re: It really has taken off there.
said by dks7  :I live in Okanogan county and know its wireless privider by heart ncidata.com which in my opinion is way over priced and always has been. Now we have cable and dsl options yet people still continue to use the wireless. I had the same wireless from ncidata.com (now swift-stream.com), the uptime was terrible and the customer support was pretty incompetent or else they were hoping the customer was incompetent.
Verizon has dsl in the south county area (distance permitting), and I do believe most all the telco providers have dsl in the other areas.
The other wireless service offered via the Okanogan PUD's retailers is pretty slow but is better than dial-up obviously, and it covers areas in Pateros, Brewster, Wakefield, Okanogan, Omak, Tonasket, and Oroville I believe.
To get an actual fiber hookup you need to be within 3000 feet of a node, and most of those are within or close to the cities. Perhaps with some more demand they would install more nodes but right now they are pushing their wireless instead which doesn't cover the need for a lot of people.
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rit56
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Re: Nice to see business going to US companies and citizens
how do you suppose large cities might overcome their blight? welfare? you are unbelievable. maybe if cities wired themselves with broadband for all and not just wealthy white folk then their economic situation might turn around. ever consider that? ever wonder why New York is the richest most powerful city in the United States? because when they built the subway system it reached all neighborhoods, not just wealthy white ones. maybe you can draw a parallel. what do you think? wire a whole city and opportunity abounds for anyone with ambition. give people access and see what happens... |
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Re: It really has taken off there.
It would surprise me if the people that are served are spread out to 5-10 houses per mile of road, if this is a town of 5K people with most houses 25ft apart then what's so 'rural' about it?
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over CA is reliable power. WA has much hydro. |
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Re: Nice to see business going to US companies and citizens
said by rit56 :how do you suppose large cities might overcome their blight? welfare? you are unbelievable. So you're saying that rural Americans can't have jobs until all those in our h*ll-hole cities do?
You're right: living in a place like NYC can be pretty bad. So, as is so often said on this site: if you don't like it, move. |
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bozobatiste
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Port Angeles, WA | Methow is flat and treeless
We cover a much bigger area in WW than methow with 150' trees.
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Jerm
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Richland, WA
| Hey we made the news!
Unfortunatly even though all the rural communities around us have local PUD fiber the city I live in (Richland [Tri-Cities], the third largest population area in WA outside Seattle & Spokane) has nothing but Verizon DSL and Charter cable modems. Boo! Sure there are a couple WISPs, but I don't consider them major competition (1.5mbit for the price I'd pay for 3mbit VZ or Charter service). Now 1.5hrs north of here in Moses Lake they have fiber to each home!
All I can hope for is that VZ brings in Fios. And yeah the cost of living here is pretty cheap. I just bought a 2000sq ft 4 bedroom home brand new home on a golf course for $160K, and our electric rates are $0.057 kwh (almost 1/4 of NYC). Oh and I work for a high tech company, so yeah that part of the article is pretty accurate. Heck even Amazon opened up a call center here. But for those really cheap they go to Idaho (min wage in WA is $7ish while Idaho is still $5ish). |
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