| Covered so many times! This topic is always brought up, or is always being argued.
Face it, if we didn't have a broadband problem, why is there some news about it every other week?
I know it isn't fair; but then what is fair?.... whole other topic.
I've worked for a cable company, and a local wisp, whom I have service with.
Regardless to say, the WISP company is now booming; popping up towers left and right, snagging all the people in the 'country' and on the fringes of town. When I was working for them, we had installs lined up for 5 straight months, and 2-3 installs per day, even Saturdays!
There is a market for it even out in the country, when I did installs, it wasn't people who had 1 tooth, or didn't know how to wash clothes. Very smart, made good money, family people.... OMG what?? Not every affluent person lives in the city??!? Unheard of...
So be glad if a WISP pops up in your area, they probably wouldn't be around if telcos, and cable companies weren't so lazy; but then again who knows. |
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 wilbilt Pronto ResurrectedPremium
join:2004-01-11
Oroville, CA | said by Monkeydoo:There is a market for it even out in the country, when I did installs, it wasn't people who had 1 tooth, or didn't know how to wash clothes. Very smart, made good money, family people.... OMG what?? Not every affluent person lives in the city??!? Unheard of... So be glad if a WISP pops up in your area, they probably wouldn't be around if telcos, and cable companies weren't so lazy; but then again who knows. The wireless argument presented in the article is completely flawed, like just about every other statement in there. Wireless "hotspots" are completely irrelevant to the broadband picture. Residential wireless availability is what they should be looking at.
94% cable availability? I'd like to know where that number came from. Cable availability is 0% in my community, as well as many other towns around here.
The entire article is blatantly ignoring the obvious.
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bjeremy
join:2007-07-01
Richardson, TX | The 94% availability number comes from this... The Telcos and Cable companies use a unique way of gathering the availability statistic. If one person in a zip code is able to get their service, then that Zip Code is 100% covered. Even though it may be that only that one person is able to get their service for whatever reason. |
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Just for some perspective...
I live in a town of ~3500 people in Northern Idaho, yet we have DSL, Cable broadband, and 3 WISPs (plus satellite). Some local dial-up providers are re-selling DSL for their customers. So when I hear about no competition, I have a difficult time relating to that. |
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| viperlmw sat. net will work anywhere where you can point to the southern sky.. I had to move to get broadband, the big companies the provide broadbband prob. could not give less then a **** about us in the country. |
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bjeremy
join:2007-07-01
Richardson, TX | reply to viperlmw
Well, I have DSL, Cable as well... the only thing is I have only one provider for each. I can only get one flavor of cable, or one flavor of DSL. The technologies differ enough to appeal to different consumers... its like choosing between a Car and a Motorcycle, with the added bonus of only being able to choose between one car and one motorcycle. Of course, I also have a choice to get Satellite... but personally I don't feel like choosing the bicycle. |
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| I have Comcast or Qwest Dialup, that's it. 56k? that's fast enough  Comcast in some areas have some really good speed tiers 15/1 15/2 but only if you have someone in your area like Verizon which has Fios to offer. You will not get anything any more than they NEED to offer. If they have you they have you and they know it and no one will made them give it up but Competition period bottom line. |
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