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26369924 (banned)
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Re: If providing service was profitable AT&T wouldn't leave

said by pandora:
If providing service in Kentucky were profitable, AT&T wouldn't want to leave. There is often a duopoly in most areas for wired Internet. Usually a telephone company and a cable company. Of the two, it is probably easier to be a cable operator.

Maybe in the *URBAN* areas of KY, OH, WV, and just about every other mixed state... but unless you been to and lived/live in those areas... there is NO DUOPOLY.. outside the urban areas. theres POTS and if your really lucky you can get DSL in these areas. Crapble ends most of the time the next hawla over and there is NO PLANS for expansion, unless YOUR PAYING for it, upfront and in cash.

VZ has already sold out most of these rural areas to frontier, especially the GTE areas..

My area is a prime example... go outside the few little urbanized "towns" and you get POTS and DSL available if your REALLY LUCKY, and crapble never was available, and no plans to expand.
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said by 26369924:



Maybe in the *URBAN* areas of KY, OH, WV, and just about every other mixed state... but unless you been to and lived/live in those areas... there is NO DUOPOLY.. outside the urban areas. theres POTS and if your really lucky you can get DSL in these areas. Crapble ends most of the time the next hawla over and there is NO PLANS for expansion, unless YOUR PAYING for it, upfront and in cash.

VZ has already sold out most of these rural areas to frontier, especially the GTE areas..

My area is a prime example... go outside the few little urbanized "towns" and you get POTS and DSL available if your REALLY LUCKY, and crapble never was available, and no plans to expand.

High density population and affluent areas without significant local regulation will almost always have better utility service than poor rural areas.

At multiple levels our government attempts to impose "fairness". Which means as near universal coverage as is possible.

There are great costs to government regulations, in time, litigation, and distraction from the core mission of providing service to new and existing customers.

If you live in a small community, contact your local utility commission and indicate your desire to provide low cost Internet to a few hundred homes nearby. Call your electric company and see if they own the poles, what they charge for pole connects.

In my state, a developer of a large complex tried to offer very low cost Internet within the complex, as a stand alone provider. He was shut down by our utility commission. Only authorized telco or cable companies can provide wired Internet service in Connecticut.

My guess is the rules are similar for most states.