 roamer1sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA | Not just ILECs, MSOs, and local govts... In some urban areas, such as Atlanta and (especially) Houston, broadband availability in some areas is spotty because of poor, self-serving decisions to by apartment owners and condo associations (i.e., choosing "alternatives" to the local ILEC and MSO.) Never mind that these sort of choices are starting to backfire as people become more savvy and start asking very pointed questions (and start to build resources like the web site whose URL is in my sig.)
That said, some of the more significant broadband holes are in very large, urban cities, such as L.A. and Boston. Very large cities tend to have older phone and cable plant which takes much more time and money to upgrade than plant in urban areas (time/safety restrictions on when work can be done, plant in conduits that can't handle more, etc.) I've seen contractors for Charter and some of its predecessors upgrade small towns in three to six months but seen AT&T's Atlanta area upgrades drag on for five years -- and they still aren't done yet. Let's not even talk about AT&T in much of the Bay Area or Chicago or the Cablevision/AT&T disaster in (the city of) Boston...
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