| Verizon's idea of "not cherry picking" Way back when I was trying to get Verizon to take people in my area off of what is called a "carrier system" where essentially they double the number of phones on a switch box. The results of the carrier system was that dialup speeds were limited to 9600kbps. I called just about everyone in Ohio that worked for Verizon. Eventually I got the guy over the whole shooting match, the head honcho of Ohio for Verizon himself.
Here's what he told me. Verizon takes money from my area and sends it to places like Florida to build better systems for those guys. So essentially I'm paying for people in Florida to have broadband. What a country.
Eventually we will see the same kind of regulations that forced the telcos to provide phone service to rural areas. But that could take decades to happen. In the meantime satellite is the only option for a reasonable speed. True broadband is out of the question.
On the road I live on there is cable on one end about a quarer of a mile from me and on the other end there's dsl about half a mile from me. And I'll be waiting for 20 years to get either one. |
