 dataicePremium
join:2002-10-27
Crisfield, MD
4 edits | reply to dslwanter
Re: Good for them! Good point, but I think we both can agree with the fact that rural locations will continue to be overlooked for the foorseable future.  |
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 dslwanterIt's comingPremium
join:2002-12-16
Niles, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
1 edit | said by dataice:Good point, but I think we both can agree with the fact that rural locations will continue to be overlooked for the foorseable future. Absolutely. I'm in a "rural" location, I was lucky enough to catch the end loop of what was very marginal DSL (384kbps, with connection loss). Most others in this township have never had broadband. We just now got this cable, we always had cable, it was just not worth much it was nothing but analogue, now it was rebuilt with fiber.
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| If you think some company is going to spend untold millions of dollars dropping fiber to the stix then you are delusional. It would make more sense to strike up some kind of deal with cellular providers and just drop the needed equipment at the cell towers. That would make much more sense financially over fiber. and coverage in rural areas would be no different than current cell phone coverage. Fiber is just barely getting off the ground in major metropolitan areas/suburbs, it will be at LEAST a decade away before rural areas can even think of getting fiber, and Verizon has already said in so many words its not interested in getting 100% of its copper plant switched over to fiber anytime soon, and most likely those places will just be sold off to another carrier like what happened in several new england states earlier this year, when Verizon offloaded them to Fairpoint communications. |
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