WhatNowPremium
join:2009-05-06
Charlotte, NC | Only wireless or will work In the rural areas only wireless or fiber will work. In the short term a beefed up wireless network would give the rural areas some broadband. I use a laptop in the field in areas that you may or may not see the next house and the web pages that are not too busy pop up reasonably fast. This would be a stop gap measure until fiber could be placed to each house.
The other problem is many of these homes have a hard time paying the POTS bill and would have a hard time with a broadband bill twice that amount even if VOIP was included in the bill at basically no cost.
The problem is who pays the ROI return on investment is not there because the density and disposable income is not there. It will have to be taxes or the subscribers in the city will have to subsidize the rural area cost. Even in the cities companies barely get a return before the equipment has to be upgraded. |
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jdir
join:2001-05-04
Santa Clara, CA | Wireless is just to slow, and un-reliable. Ever try WIFI during a rain storm? |
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 Duramax08A Challenger AppearsPremium
join:2008-08-03
San Antonio, TX
 ·Millenicom
·Cricket Broadband
 ·Juno Express
·Clearwire Wireless
| I agree, wireless is slow. Anything can affect it like terrain and weather. I suggest they use anything via landline since its much reliable other then wireless and satellite. They can put new fiber at an expensive cost, Extend cable lines that can go longer then copper or they can milk the crap out of the copper lines. I guess I will speak for the rural people. WE WILL TAKE ANYTHING VIA LANDLINE PLEASE =)
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One day, High speed internet will be down my road! Willing to put DSLAM's or cable plants on my yard. Contact me AT&T or TWC to set up an appointment =] |
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cephlon
join:2005-11-03
Ocean View, HI | I am on a wisp service and it never goes down. We get rain every night where I live. I also get 2mb consistently, unlike my uncles road runner which goes from 5 mb to 512kb. I can watch netflix at 8pm with no problem. Latency is great too. I have voip and xbox with no probs. Not sure why you are so against wisp services. |
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Duramax08A Challenger AppearsPremium
join:2008-08-03
San Antonio, TX | Sorry, The wireless I meant was Cellular. WISP seems good but there isnt that many over here on land. |
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Reviews:
·Frontier Communi..
·US Cellular
| Our only choice here is US Cellular EVDO. In spite of the $60 per month price with the miserable 5GB per month cap we're happy to have it. We get a pretty consistent 1 to 1.3 Mbit down even if it's raining HARD. (We do have a directional antenna and cell phone repeater)
So far our only issue (besides lousy US Cellular customer service) is that 5GB cap. For the price I'd expect at least double the cap. I'd be happy with 500 kbit service with a 10 GB cap. Or I can pay for usage above the cap, but not 50 cents a megabyte!
Wireless make sense here in the mountains and can work well, but it looks like we need competition to drive the providers to be a little for fair.
said by Duramax08:Sorry, The wireless I meant was Cellular. WISP seems good but there isnt that many over here on land. |
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