Re: Rural DSL in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19008142 en Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:00:59 EDT Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:00:59 EDT Re: Rural DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19008142 anon : I had the Dslam discussion with the Bellsouth engineers just a couple of weeks ago, and like everything else, it all comes down to dollars and cents. My central office has DSL, but no Dslam, so the service ends less than a half-mile from my house.

Bellsouth won't even consider installing a Dslam in another year or two because of the cost, even though I was assured back in 1999 I would be able to subscribe within 6 months.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19008142 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:30:48 EDT Re: Rural DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18998218 Fox McCloud :
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said by Fox McCloud See Profile :

*sigh* I think it'll be years before the broadband divide is ever truly "fixed".
IMHO there will always be a digital divide. Imagine what things will be like in 50 years. FTTH will be available to a majority of American homes. Because of mobility wireless also has a very strong future. By then FTTH will be used in ways most of us have never thought of including medical treatment. Some may only use FTTH as a connection point for their future version of a wireless router. Still others will probably decide that despite the bandwidth constraints a WISP meets their then current needs.

However just as you can now build a house beyond the power grid, beyond the PSTN, and beyond the reach of cell towers there will be homes where the described future will not exist in 50 years. None of what I just said is meant to suggest that no one should try to reduce the digital divide as much as possible.
I generally agree; I just don't like it when there are people in rural areas that aren't truly "out in the middle of nowhere" (for example, I say that I am, but, in actuality, I'm only 12-15 minutes from town...which isn't terribly far)...and yet the fail to deploy here.

The one silver lining is that once FTTH is deployed, it'll probably stay in place until the "end of time" so to speak, as every few years, someone finds a way to squeeze even more bandwidth out of a single strand of fiber. I can't see DSL lasting beyond 2015, as copper will become more expensive and fiber by then...and I can't see cable being able to compete with fiber in the long-run (that'll be an interesting time, the telco's will have the cable companies on the run when it comes to bandwidth).

And let's be honest; it seems that the bandwidth speeds being offered increase faster than that size of the actual media we download...therefore, I would tend to think it would be decades (if not a century or so) until we would even want a 1 terabit connection.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18998218 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:45:10 EDT Re: Rural DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18997707 Sammer :
said by Fox McCloud See Profile :

*sigh* I think it'll be years before the broadband divide is ever truly "fixed".
IMHO there will always be a digital divide. Imagine what things will be like in 50 years. FTTH will be available to a majority of American homes. Because of mobility wireless also has a very strong future. By then FTTH will be used in ways most of us have never thought of including medical treatment. Some may only use FTTH as a connection point for their future version of a wireless router. Still others will probably decide that despite the bandwidth constraints a WISP meets their then current needs.

However just as you can now build a house beyond the power grid, beyond the PSTN, and beyond the reach of cell towers there will be homes where the described future will not exist in 50 years. None of what I just said is meant to suggest that no one should try to reduce the digital divide as much as possible.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18997707 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:01:02 EDT Re: Rural DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18994727 ARGONAUT : :D disregard. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18994727 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:20:11 EDT Re: Rural DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18994650 Fox McCloud :
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They would have better coverage running WiFi off of cell phone towers.
If every cellphone tower also had WISP equipment mounted on it, there would be very very few people who wouldn't have broadband access.

Anyway, there's a great number of RT's that are very DSL capable (fiber fed), but they lack a DSLAM...come on people, just put a freaking DSLAM there and you'll expand your coverage significantly....

However, you'll still have dead-zones....

*sigh* I think it'll be years before the broadband divide is ever truly "fixed".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18994650 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:04:18 EDT Re: Rural DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18993717 ARGONAUT : They would have better coverage running WiFi off of cell phone towers.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18993717 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:35:20 EDT Rural DSL http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18992862 MrMoody : Plenty of people I know would be glad to have DSL as their only broadband choice.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18992862 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:50:58 EDT