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Greenfield Indiana multiple cable companies question

Nobody gets those service maps to show potential customers. The companies regard that information as proprietary secret stuff. Reveal it and you get fired. Potential customers can call in with an exact specific address to find out about service at that location. Or they can do it over the WWW from a web site. That is what you will need to do.

Wouldn't the state regulatory commission have to know this information? Most of the cable companies in Indiana are now regulated with the state. I wonder if I could get a copy from them. I am thinking of moving there in several years but having decided where. Richmond, IN and or somewhere in Tennessee non mountain side.

On Greenfield it looks like one of those areas where you have competition.

I was hoping someone from Greenfield would be reading this.

reply to gpatrick900
States may have this information, but they got it by agreeing not to reveal it to the public. They can probably only use it for extreme emergencies involving potential loss of life or wide area disasters. The fine federal employees of Homeland Security/DoD who deal with the NSA and the FCC have it, so they can use it for national security purposes. .

Going to the Greenfield, Indiana website »www.greenfieldin.org/utility-ser···ormation shows Comcast services the city.

Also a utility called Nine Star Connect »www.ninestarconnect.com/ provides video, internet and phone. Basic cable is $44.95.

The AT&t Uverse site says Uverse is available in Zip Code 46140.

reply to gpatrick900
and in the time farme it could change from what is now

reply to gpatrick900
New Jersey has a Broadband map that shows all carriers and the areas they cover anywhere from street to county view. I would assume other states have this too.

»njgin.state.nj.us/oit/gis/OIT_Br···/Map.htm

I'm not sure why others are saying its such private information...

The more friendly a state is with ISP companies, the less likely any accurate information will get to the public. Plus, if as I suspect, the New Jersey map came primarily from the NTIA and FCC databases, then what it shows are the companies stated market areas, not the actual present day areas with available service. What the public needs is an accurate database that allows for specific address input and returns yes or no answers on if a specific DSL, coax, or fiber ISP service is available. Wireless is too variable due to terrain and antenna placement to expect such specificity. There are DSL providers with such bad databases you cannot tell if service is available or not. The technician you meet in person says one thing, the telephone order clerk says another, and the website says a third situation exists. If service is available, you cannot get consistent reliable information on the speed of such a service. The maps for New Jersey probably include information from such messed up DSL databases.

davidhoffman
I found a way to find cable companies that services a certain area, real easy. Titantv is fairly accurate-changes could take up to 3 months. The only problem would be when more than one company services the same zip code.

Yes, TitanTV is a great tool. But the problem of determining ISP service choice availability remains. The TV availability is usually easy because most established cable companies build out to the legal limits of the city that originally gave them the franchise. If the city grows geographically into an unserviced area, the cable companies usually will grow into the new service area after a few years. After they turn the new area on you get the same TV service as the rest of the city. Usually the same internet service tiers. It is the DSL service that is more mysterious. Other posters have noted no increases in DSL capability for years, and then when the cable company upgrades service, within a month you get a doubling of DSL speeds and more areas serviced. What, the telephone company could not have done that 2 years earlier? In the 21st century?

reply to MacSto

I believe it is relatively new, however it does show some weird areas having Verizon DSL or Cablevision and Service Electric in some territories. However it's pretty accurate for me as far as the DSL and Speed.