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From Northpoint dsl to no dsl

All depends on who has put hardware in your CO.
I got a Flashcom/Northpoint line back in Dec '99 because they were the first ones to offer service out of my CO. It took Verizon and COVAD another couple of months to get in.

reply to skinny dude
The good thing skinny dude is that now that ATT has bought all of NP's equipment they will at some point in time be able to provide DSL service for you. The restrictions may be now that you are to far for ADSL (which the ILEC usually provides) and no other CLECs have equipment there available. But rest assured I have inside information that ATT plans on up and running starting August 1st in some parts of the country and your part of the country by the end of the yr.
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Matthew
Ex-Northpoint, Qwest, Covad OSP Network Technician

reply to skinny dude

You still might have options:

1.) You could always go with StarBand two-way satellite. Not very good for gaming, but for downloading it blows dialup away.

2.) Fixed wireless is gaining steam. You might get lucky and live in the service radius of sprint or one of the smaller companies.

3.) The low earth orbit (LEO) satellites should be up in the next year or so. No latency like the current generation of birds in geostationary orbit.

4.) Of course if you could get cable, you probably wouldn't be here. Cable companies are still expanding their service areas.

5.) SBC's Project Pronto is moving DSL farther out every day. If you bug PacBell, you might be able to find out about their plans for your area.

6.) You should be able to get IDSL, which is still better than dialup. I think someone is jerking your chain about availability.

7.) You could always get a dedicated line. T1's have come way down in price, and I have seen frame relay solutions as low as a few hundred per month. It won't go down, and if it does they will fix it fast.

If I were you, I would bug various ISPs about getting IDSL. If that fails, get StarBand and wait for something better to come along, as it surely will.

--Mark

Would that be LEO like Motorola's Iridium? We've heard that one before, *sigh*.

Iridium wasn't really meant to handle data. There's a new generation of LEO's supposed to be launched this year. The company is partly owned by Bill Gates. I think it's called teledesic.

--Mark

»www.teledesic.com

Hmm.. I'll go for 64mb/2mb LEO any day! I'll sign a contract in a minute... after I see someone else's story.
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-M
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