iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Comcast
| No kidding. I live next to a subdivision that has maybe ten houses per mile. Affluent ones. People who would pay a reasonable price (even $70 per month) for reliable, fast internet access.
DSL came in late last year, to the central office. A small remote would cover the whole subdivision with a pretty darned low CapEx cost. Yet that RT will never be placed while Verizon is in control of things here. I'm at the end of the line for DSL, which cause about 20 minutes of downtime yesterday due to stormy weather. I'm not complaining...I'm working to do something better.
Oh, and Time Warner Cable is 2215 feet away. That'll be $9000, thank you.
I'm two miles from city limits, 3 miles from the city center. I *almost* know how you feel, though thanks be to God I'm not on satellite. |
Reviews:
 ·Air Advantage
 ·HughesNet Satell..
| reply to CM3200
said by CM3200 :
I get sick of seeing this argument. "Centers of society" - give me a break.
I have no option but satellite, yet I don't live in a remote corner of nowhere.
There are a hundred houses within a half-mile of where I live.
ATT is a joke and will not expand unless made to do so. I dropped all phone service with them in protest.
When we bought this house it was before there was such a thing as DSL or other broadband. I did not CHOOSE to be left without access.
I get tired of hearing "big-city" people spout off in condescending tones to those who do not live in their so-called "centers of society".
Good grief.
totally agree with you. I too live in a location where there is nothing but satellite, yet we live within a mile of hundreds of houses. and it's not only att that isn't expanding, verizon is the same way. |
