Re: Laughable in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22482457 en Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:06:59 EDT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:06:59 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22509128 arkayn71 : I live in Golden Valley, AZ(Between Kingman and Bullhead City/Laughlin) and we have DSL. Population is about 5000 spread out over a fair area.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22509128 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:59:27 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22487355 tim_k :
said by cyclone_z See Profile :

Ha! Gushing over Verizon and trash talking Qwest are the two biggest pass times on this forum. I keep telling everyone that Verizon doesn't give a rat's ass about you if you're rural, and Verizon's definition of rural is any city smaller than Erie, PA.
On come on now. While I don't feel like investigating the number of people serviced by our CO, the number of people in the concentrated part of town, Stewartstown borough, is only around 2,000. I don't think the CO reaches more than maybe 5,000, a far cry from Erie. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewartsto···sylvania And we have DSL.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22487355 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:42:15 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22487333 cyclone_z :
said by Matt See Profile :

said by Hazy Arc See Profile :

Simpsonville and Woodruff are not rural by any stretch of the imagination...hell, they are within 10-15 miles of downtown Greenville. Why Verizon dropped the ball on this is beyond me.
20,000 lines is simply not worth it to Verizon. That is (in their eyes) as rural as it gets unfortunately.
Ha! Gushing over Verizon and trash talking Qwest are the two biggest pass times on this forum. I keep telling everyone that Verizon doesn't give a rat's ass about you if you're rural, and Verizon's definition of rural is any city smaller than Erie, PA.

Qwest on the other hand has put DSLAMs in just about every CO (that they own) in Iowa. I looked at their list, and even the town of Dike, population 900, has DSL. My parents have DSL thanks to a remote DSLAM that Qwest installed. I can actually have a decent Internet connection when I'm down there. If the LEC here was Verizon, there would be FiOS in select areas of West Des Moines and Clive, and the rest of the state wouldn't have any high speed service at all.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22487333 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:30:25 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22483006 Bob61571 :
"Verizon doesn't offer high-speed Internet over its telephone lines in those areas or its advanced television service, FiOS TV. "


Per article, Verizon never even offered DSL to these Simpsonville residents? Wow!

Per internet search, RiverWalk subdivision homes worth $280K - $680K. Check photos, these are nice homes! With prime broadband customers, upper income.

Verizon either:
1)Had local staff that didn't pay attention to their service area, and failed to offer DSL(or FiOS) there.
or
2)Made decision NOT to serve this Simpsonville area.

Either way, dumb!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22483006 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:36:07 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22482457 johan_hammy : Unless there already is a wireless provider there.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22482457 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:00:22 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22481108 tim_k :
said by hottboiinnc See Profile :

And what do you have, the damn union butting their damn asses into the mix saying things are possible. They should come here and run their mouth and see what happens, they're asses get sued.

"I have concerns about any company taking on another company that's three times their size," said Egelhoff, whose office is in Everett, Wash. "I have real concerns that they will have the money base to make it work."

The Union doesn't need to know how much money Frontier has. If they can pay their "members" then they should shut up.
You sure had to stretch to find some kind of anti-union angle. They are worried that Frontier won't be able to handle $3.3 billion in new debt. You know, kinda like some other recent purchase of Verizon land lines.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22481108 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:45:12 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22481046 hottboiinnc : And what do you have, the damn union butting their damn asses into the mix saying things are possible. They should come here and run their mouth and see what happens, they're asses get sued.

"I have concerns about any company taking on another company that's three times their size," said Egelhoff, whose office is in Everett, Wash. "I have real concerns that they will have the money base to make it work."

The Union doesn't need to know how much money Frontier has. If they can pay their "members" then they should shut up.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22481046 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:23:29 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22480237 anon : »www.oregonlive.com/business/inde···shi.html Even more laughable.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22480237 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:41:24 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479343 hottboiinnc : Very true. That's the only thing VZ wanted was the GTE wireless network.

On the other hand nothing is stopping these people from setting up a Co-Op and building out a Wireless provider. Why wait for VZ or Frontier to do it. Build out your own with a Co-Op don't use Tax money, and then tell VZ to take a hike.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479343 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:58:16 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479301 keatingt : I submit to you, sir, that any place called Simpsonville or, for that matter, any place within 10-15 miles of downtown Greenville is, by definition, rural.

I rest my case.

;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22479301 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:51:44 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22478090 SuperJoker :
said by Matt See Profile :

said by Hazy Arc See Profile :

Simpsonville and Woodruff are not rural by any stretch of the imagination...hell, they are within 10-15 miles of downtown Greenville. Why Verizon dropped the ball on this is beyond me.
20,000 lines is simply not worth it to Verizon. That is (in their eyes) as rural as it gets unfortunately.
As rural as It gets, I live in Yermo CA, the population here is about 4200 and so We have maybe 2100 lines and then there's Barstow CA nearby they have a population of about 20,000 and maybe 10,000 lines, So rural can get pretty small and Yes We have DSL here. And We might be one of the communities in So Cal that Verizon wants to sell off and had no real intention of serving just so they could acquire the GTE wireless network.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22478090 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:03:27 EDT Re: Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22477930 Matt :
said by Hazy Arc See Profile :

Simpsonville and Woodruff are not rural by any stretch of the imagination...hell, they are within 10-15 miles of downtown Greenville. Why Verizon dropped the ball on this is beyond me.
20,000 lines is simply not worth it to Verizon. That is (in their eyes) as rural as it gets unfortunately.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22477930 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:37:59 EDT Laughable http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22477519 Hazy Arc : Simpsonville and Woodruff are not rural by any stretch of the imagination...hell, they are within 10-15 miles of downtown Greenville. Why Verizon dropped the ball on this is beyond me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22477519 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:31:08 EDT