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 ·Verizon FiOS
| It ain't just rural hell, I live in the DC-Maryland metro area and I can only get cable - no DSL, no FIOS. I have never been able to get DSL from bell atlantic/verizon and expect that I never will be able to get DSL - verizon just isn't interested in serving my high income area. I thought I would be getting FIOS soon, but now I am starting to doubt that.
It ain't just rural areas that have no broadband or no competition for broadband. |
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kaila
join:2000-10-11
Lincolnshire, IL | Ditto here in my suburban Chicago town. AT&T here can't make a business case for bringing DSL here anymore due to Comcast literally owning the market- something over 70% of households use them for internet. The village had been promised from (now) AT&T for years that DSL would be brought here, but recently have dropped deployment plans completely. Giving Comcast plenty of time to establish a deathgrip.
We are lucky to be a leading market for the rollout of Sprint's WiMax (2008). And the latest word from AT&T is they might reconsider deployment plans here Sprint manages to do well. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to nasadude
wow thats sad you think AT&T would be pushing for a chance to try and steal comcast customers with Uverse.
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I live in Palo Alto, less than 1.6 miles from 367 Addison Avenue, where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard launched Silicon Valley in a garage. I live 12,189 measured feet from my CO. I currently have 300 kbs down via Covad/Earthlink. AT&T now owns the copper; they acquired it from PacTel via SBC's takeover. AT&T say that they cannot qualify me for DSL at all. When pressed, they reply that they are only obliged by the state utilities commission to provide voice service. They cite the possibility that bridge taps may degrade the quality of the line, as may the extra line in the catenary loops and/or extra wiring in the CO itself. This is the same provider that spent big bucks convincing the state legislature that they should be given permission to provide cable TV and movies on demand via this same outside plant! They make noises about fiber to the neighborhood, or repeater/booster devices in a neighborhood distribution box but they spend their money on trying to buy politicians and paying exorbitant executive salaries. Go figure!
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 JTRockvilleData HoPremium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD
·Verizon FiOS
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said by nasadude:... I thought I would be getting FIOS soon, but now I am starting to doubt that.... I was just checking out the packet for the MCMD council's quarterly revew of Comcast/RCN/Verizon - I thought there might be an update on "the Rockville situation" from Verizon, but I didn't see anything about it. I did see a couple more Comcast fines, but those seem to be issued pretty regularly now:
»www.montgomerycountymd.gov/conte···fp02.pdf |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to baumgrenze
said by baumgrenze:I live in Palo Alto, less than 1.6 miles from 367 Addison Avenue, where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard launched Silicon Valley in a garage. I live 12,189 measured feet from my CO. I currently have 300 kbs down via Covad/Earthlink. AT&T now owns the copper; they acquired it from PacTel via SBC's takeover. AT&T say that they cannot qualify me for DSL at all. When pressed, they reply that they are only obliged by the state utilities commission to provide voice service. They cite the possibility that bridge taps may degrade the quality of the line, as may the extra line in the catenary loops and/or extra wiring in the CO itself. This is the same provider that spent big bucks convincing the state legislature that they should be given permission to provide cable TV and movies on demand via this same outside plant! They make noises about fiber to the neighborhood, or repeater/booster devices in a neighborhood distribution box but they spend their money on trying to buy politicians and paying exorbitant executive salaries. Go figure! baumgrenze in Silicon Valley one should have 100mbit symetrical for 20 bucks a month imo. tech R&D of pretty much every major computer invention in the world and it doesnt even have full DSL.
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