So Basically

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Edrick I aspire to tell the story of a lifetime Premium join:2004-09-11 Woburn, MA	So Basically They spent all that money to expand to a client base the size of a small town? 6,000 Homes? Not really that many.
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caco Premium join:2005-03-10 Whittier, AK 1 edit	Read the article. that expansion affected 25 communities. I have never been to Vermont but everything I've read is that towns are pretty spread out from each other so this really stands out especially with Verizon rushing to get out of serving rural areas. Brookline- Population (US Census, 2000): 467 North Hero-Population (US Census, 2000): 810 South Hero- Population (US Census, 2000): 1696 Grand Isle- Population (US Census, 2000): 2377 Rough estimate but 5k folks that didn't have broadband now have services available. Corrected - Grand Isle number- Had county number in there in error -- Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
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56403739 Less than 5 months left Premium join:2006-03-08 Naples, FL kudos:2	reply to Edrick Nice to see Comcast advertising on the news page here now. I'm sure the revenue is needed and this bare-faced press release will buy them some nice PR.
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fiberguy My views are my own. Premium join:2005-05-20 kudos:3 1 edit	reply to Edrick said by Edrick: They spent all that money to expand to a client base the size of a small town? 6,000 Homes? Not really that many. In the area I live in Minneapolis (subs) That's the size of my entire city and I don't live exactly in really an unpopulated area.. so that's a lot.. and like it was said.. that's multiple communities. To be honest, I'm even surprised someone posted that on BBR... every day people bitch that they want cable and other providers to expand and serve... and Comcast, of all the great evil corporations, stepped up and did just that... But.. "not really that many" huh?? Tell that to the people who post here that are biting at the bit in order to get plant extended just 600' so they can get HSI... 6,000 new potential subscribers it a lot for that area. what the heck does it take to make people around here happy??? I thought on this borg ship, all people were of one thought.. I guess I'm wrong.. edit: By the way.. the city of Corcoran, MN is a town of 5,630 people as of the last count... they're pretty way out of the way for the St Paul MN system.. yet comcast has service out there, in the deep rural area of the metro, and most of the service is underground to boot.. in farm land country, where there are many roads that are dirt and not even paved. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcoran,_Minnesota
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mikedz4 join:2003-04-14 Weirton, WV Reviews: ·Comcast ·Comcast Digital ..	said by fiberguy: By the way.. the city of Corcoran, MN is a town of 5,630 people as of the last count... they're pretty way out of the way for the St Paul MN system.. yet comcast has service out there, in the deep rural area of the metro, and most of the service is underground to boot.. in farm land country, where there are many roads that are dirt and not even paved. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcoran,_Minnesota I thought most wires were underground in the midwest because of the high winds, storms and torndaoes? Here in the east most of the lines are above ground still even though at least 10 times a year we have trees knock lines down because of snow, ice, wind, or storms.
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fiberguy My views are my own. Premium join:2005-05-20 kudos:3	Not really true... there are PLENTY of over head areas out here.. in the Twin Cities, we have mostly underground service in the newer areas just as with any other metro.. the thing is, the Twin Cities saw an INCREDIBLE amount of growth over the past few decades and sprawled a lot. With that, we do have a lot of underground areas, however, we also have a TON of over head. The area of Corcoran that I'm talking about is rather old.. rural - and there IS a lot of farm land out here.. it's usually a place you'd find more over head than not.
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Marckus0513 Just Because join:2003-01-11 Vernon, VT	reply to caco said by caco: Read the article. that expansion affected 25 communities. I have never been to Vermont but everything I've read is that towns are pretty spread out from each other so this really stands out especially with Verizon rushing to get out of serving rural areas. Brookline- Population (US Census, 2000): 467 North Hero-Population (US Census, 2000): 810 South Hero- Population (US Census, 2000): 1696 Grand Isle- Population (US Census, 2000): 2377 Rough estimate but 5k folks that didn't have broadband now have services available. Corrected - Grand Isle number- Had county number in there in error See my other post but North Hero, South Hero and Grand Isle all had close to 100% broadband service available from wireless provider GlobalNet and DSL from Fairpoint way before Comcast came in. Comcast is not the super hero for providing to these 'Not so under served' areas!
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benjii44 @comcast.net	I agree with this, comcast gets all the credit but just look who was there first and who made it possible by setting all the poles and doing all the line work for comcast to put there stuff on in order to serve these customers i believe it was fairpoint as comcast doesnt have a line crew to do this type of work as they keep laying off employees right before the holidays every year.
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