Largest ISPs Say No Thanks To Stimulus Funds > ISP's want to treat subscribers like a Mushrooms!

reply to Mr Matt

Re: ISP's want to treat subscribers like a Mushrooms!

Exactly.
In many areas (wasn't it PA?), companies like to promote fiber and all sorts of high speed internet options, but only if the government stays out of its business.
Government is willing to pay (stimulus) to these companies, but want control.

Its a stalemate, in general. The only companies that I would suspect want to take stimulus, are those that are nearing Chapter 11, and have no choice. (eg Frontier, Charter, Fairpoint). The 'big' corps don't like serving rural in general (VZ) and have pulled themselves out of the wireline business in those areas, but are building wireless there (VZW / LTE buildout, Sprint/Nextel/Clearwire / WiMAX).
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Canada = Hollywood North

Yeah, rather interesting to see that the former wireline operators (Verizon and AT&T) are now pulling for 700mHz LTE deployments that will probably cover many of the areas Verizon sold off in the landline arena.

Brilliant. Especially when people are used to 5GB mobile caps and thus, having no other alternatives due to being served by a bankrupt telco, are offered 25GB by Verizon or AT&T on their new LTE equipment.

I'd almost expect that to be the case:

Business/Cities: POTS exist
Rural: wireless land line over LTE only
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Canada = Hollywood North

Actually, there are plenty of rural cell carriers that use Telular gear to offer POTS-style service over a cellular signal right now. not so hot for internet though; I don't know of a single rural carrier that has upgraded to 3G, though some regionals have rolled out EvDO networks (Bluegrass Cellular for example).