said by Gogo1: Are AT&T allowed to build in these areas? Are TWC, Comcast, Cablevision allowed? No? Then why would Verizon work any faster?
I no longer live in the US, but when I was there I had the choice between Verizon and TWC. (And Verizon couldnt give me DSL because there was fiber on my line. So I had the choice of TWC or a TWC reseller like Earthlink.) Can someone explain to me why I couldnt get Optimum or AT&T or Comcast? Do these companies just choose not to serve certain areas? Or are there restrictions? (ie the market is not free.)
No legal restrictions. the Communications Act of 1996 pretty much opened things up to make competition possible. It didn't really work though. CableCos weren't required to provide wholesale access to their lines, and the TelCos pretty well crushed the CLECS. There was one company that tried to overlay and compete with CableCos, but I can't come up with their name right now, so I don't think they've been too successful.
