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Ericthorn
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join:2001-08-10
Paragould, AR
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Re: Backwoods?
In NE Arkansas, Jonesboro/Cox Comm just got people up to 3mg down about a year ago. Here in Paragould, most of the DSL is 768k if you're lucky. The Power/Water company here offers many different flavors of cable packages, up to 2mg down at 60$/mo, but the network is so totally congested you're lucky to see 25% of that during 'peak' hours (but you can still shove out 400k up). SBC (now AT&T) is the backbone here for everything, but I think they see no reason to upgrade based on what profits they might see from the investment.
I moved here from California a few years ago and wouldn't leave if I was paid twice what I am now, but it would be nice to see some growth in the DSL/Cable.. I get deadly envy when I read about places getting 5/10/15mg downs for what I'm paying, or less.
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razzorr
join:2002-01-31
Fort Smith, AR
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True Fort Smith is the second largest city in Arkansas and you can not get DSL in all of it. To add that in places where the real expensive houses are you can not DSL but, in the older part you can.
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BigCreek
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join:2002-06-25
Heber Springs, AR
| The people in towns and suburbs all over this state who can't get broadband might differ with the characterization.
There's a commercial strip center near here (Wal-Mart Super Center, KFC, Taco Bell, etc.) where AT&T won't deploy DSL. Too backwoods I guess.
The primary problem is that this state is mostly under the thumb of AT&T/SBC who, for whatever reason, simply won't deploy DSLAMs in many of their COs and almost none of their RTs. Too backwoods I guess.
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