nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to Karl Bode
I live in the metro DC area in Maryland, about 6-7 miles outside the beltway. The area I am in was rural 25 years ago, but it's been pretty dense for at least the last ten years and gets denser every year. It's also a wealthy area.
I have been able to get pots since that time, but have never been able to get DSL and never expect to get DSL - I will get FIOS eventually.
For some reason, the incumbent telco has never seen fit to upgrade equipment in this area to offer DSL.
So no service is not always because an area is rural or because everybody living there is "poor"; it's apparent the telcos have various reasons for not serving an area, but one thing is obvious - because they are/were a monopoly, if they don't want to do something, they don't have to. |
