http://www.dslreports.com/forum/700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23305101 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:42:36 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:42:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23308462 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23308462 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:01:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23306893 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23306893 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:40:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23305755 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23305755 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:22:56 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23305101 centrytel wireless game plan

I notice something rather interesting while looking at the planned 700mhz service area map on CenturyTel's web site. The wireless regions generally seem to correspond to lower population areas of the USA. Compare these two maps:


(from »www.centurytelembarqmerger.com/a···dex.html )


(from »www.mapofusa.net/us-population-d···-map.htm )

•The Michigan/UP area is fairly low density and much of it is National Forest land
•The Colorado/New Mexico area is low density... covering the Comache National Grassland and the Rio Grande National Forest.
•The whole Missouri/Arkansas/Lousiana area is medium/low density, neatly covering the low-density zone between Kansas City and St Louis, and a little hole punched out around Montgomery, Alabama
•Western Montana is a huge swath of no-man's land, as is eastern Washington state.

There is very little overlap of the 700mhz regions with the deep-red population zones of the lower map.

So it would appear that the game plan for CenturyTel CenturyLink is that for the customers who are out in the sticks, and really expensive to connect on DSL... they're going to get 700mhz broadband instead.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/700mhz-for-lowpopulation-broadband-service-areas-23305101 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:46:20 EDT