roamer1
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Re: Nebraska
said by The Beer  :I think it's a little unrealistic to expect them to offer DSL to a house 20 miles from the CO. It isn't just the rural farming areas, many of which Qwest doesn't even serve anyway; Qwest has rather poor DSL deployment even in large cities such as Denver and SLC.
In general, the Baby Bells (BellSouth is somewhat of an exception) are far worse when it comes to rural DSL deployment than are smaller independent phone companies. Some of it has to do with network design issues, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that Bells don't believe rural areas are profitable (hence Verizon selling off entire states and Qwest selling off large parts of its service area) while rural areas are independents' bread and butter.
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The Beer
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| I don't know if I agree.
I don't think there is a house in the Omaha metro where you can't either get Qwest DSL or Qwest TeleChoice Cable in addition to Cox HSI.
Business hurt since in Telechoice areas Qwest is not permitted to install DSL, such as my office. Qwest did not install TeleChoice in Businesses.
One item of note was that Cable penetration is 91% according to that survey, so these people just may not have DSL but only 9% of Nebraska can't get cable internet.
Even that is skewed since I bet some of that 9% is serviced by DSL and not Cable.
So I thought I would grab a random BFE Nebraska town, Spencer, NE pop 541.
Yep, Has DSL »www.nntc.net/nntcnet.htm |
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