 linicxCaveat EmptorPremium
join:2002-12-03
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Re: Earthlink DSL - not available? I don't know anything about Earthlink, but I do live rural. Competition does not exist. Most cable and phone companies today offer Internet. All have protected territories. Earthlink cannot serve an XYZ customer.
The parents may be one house OUT of the Earthlink territory.
If Earthlink is now a telco, it is possible your parents do not have a copper phone line -- which means they have no phone service. No phone service = no Internet thru the phone company unless they decide to bring a phone service to the house... they probably won't due to cost of installing the copper line.
No lines can mean a company is oversold. Until the upgrade or someone gives up the service it won't be available.
That leaves cable and satellite. Read the phone book and newspapers. There is always a possibility someone from out of the area provides a microwave or wireless link up that is not a satellite dish company.
Call your county officials; someone knows who the phone, cable, internet and wireless providers are in their county. They have to know the answers because they approve each service to residents.
There are many solutions, Finding the answers is the challenge in most rural areas especially if they are underserved which most are.
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Decko
join:2013-03-28
Goldsboro, NC | Yeah the only other options available are Satellite with 2 year contracts that are $100+ a month for trash service with 10mb monthly limits. They have phone service through the same provider that says they can't get internet because there's no available spots on the line |
