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Re: FairPoint gives us no reason to hope for the best... WIMAX wouldn't really work in many of these rural areas due to the mountains, etc.
The solution is to add remote COs and do DSL (since copper telco is readily available), or use 700 or 900mhz wireless-based networks.
There's always Broadband over PowerLine too, but as a ham operator I'm pretty much against that idea because of the amount of destruction to the radio bands it provides.
Satellite is a great last-ditch when nothing else is available. However - I was a former DirecWay customer and it serves nothing for people who would want to play video games online or want to download anything of value (including rentable movies from Vongo, Netflix, Amazon Unbox, etc.). They throttle the speeds of the customers that download excessively (excessively being the benchmark of 100-200mb in the course of a 4 hour period, if memory serves). |
