ninjatutle
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join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA
1 edit | reply to plk
Re: rural option
The service is called Sprint Mobile Broadband Connection. Not Sprint Rural Home Broadband Connection.
These rural folks using this as a home connection probably had a hand in killing this off. |
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ydoucare
join:2003-03-12
Rensselaer, IN
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3 edits | Large cities are the cause for this. They don't care about 2 or 3 people hogging a tower out in the boondocks. However, i'm sure they do care about 15+ people eating up a tower in a city such as Chicago, which is where they need to control bandwidth, as most of those towers only have 2 T1's worth of backhaul at most. There are plenty of people who use this as both their home and mobile connection in urban areas, my boss being one. Either case, 5 GB is ridiculous, they're just becoming followers. At least be a little different and try 10? Now it's REALLY becoming a ripoff at 59.99/month (or 61+ after tax).
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random_texan
join:2007-02-08
San Antonio, TX
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Why bash the 'rural folks'? We have just as much right to have broadband as the next guy. If they advertise the service as a "broadband connection", how is it not able to be used at your home for the main connection to the internet? I use Alltel as my main connection, and as the only connection I'll most likely ever see out here.
We're not all as privileged as you are in the cities. Hell, many city folks don't have that many options either. |
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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| said by random_texan  :Why bash the 'rural folks'? We have just as much right to have broadband as the next guy. Of course you do. But it is going to cost more. Part of the charm of living in rural areas. But other costs will be lower. All part of the tradeoff of choosing where you live.
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Dogfather
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to random_texan
You have no "RIGHT" to broadband. |
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KrK
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| said by Dogfather :You have no "RIGHT" to broadband. Which means his statement is still correct as in: "We have just as much right to broadband as the next guy..."
Next guy has zero rights to it too! |
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | That is true. |
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shoan
join:2006-02-27
Benton, AR
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when i checked this out in the store the salesman told me that sprint has no problem with it being used as a home dedicated connection. They market it as a dsl/cable alternative in the local sprint store. So this is not just a rural killed it thing. But thank god for a good wisp opening up in our area or we would have had nothing now that sprint is going this route. |
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phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL
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said by ydoucare :Large cities are the cause for this. They don't care about 2 or 3 people hogging a tower out in the boondocks. However, i'm sure they do care about 15+ people eating up a tower in a city such as Chicago, which is where they need to control bandwidth, as most of those towers only have 2 T1's worth of backhaul at most. There are plenty of people who use this as both their home and mobile connection in urban areas, my boss being one. Either case, 5 GB is ridiculous, they're just becoming followers. At least be a little different and try 10? Now it's REALLY becoming a ripoff at 59.99/month (or 61+ after tax) Wait, what makes you think they only have a few T1's? I only ask because most of the ones I have seen either have a microwave repeater on them for backhaul, or are hooked up to the PSTN directly at the tower via a CO/Switch, or remote switch, and those are fed by fiber in most cases, or again by microwave... What phone company were you talking about? I want to know so I don't make the mistake of buying their service one day...
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random_texan
join:2007-02-08
San Antonio, TX
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said by KrK :said by Dogfather :You have no "RIGHT" to broadband. Which means his statement is still correct as in: "We have just as much right to broadband as the next guy..." Next guy has zero rights to it too! That's kinda why I said that. I don't have any illusion that I'm SUPPOSED to be provided broadband. I just didn't like the statement that people in rural areas such as myself are the reason these changes were happening. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
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said by Dogfather :You have no "RIGHT" to broadband. You have the right to have broadband available. According to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, it is U.S. policy that affordable broadband will be made available to all Americans.
We're 12 years into it, and that policy has not been fulfilled. Yet. It may never be. |
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