Ncva_linehopper
@nuvox.net
| As someone that lives in the area..
I can tell you that yes they have been expanding up there, at least on the customer front. My mother just moved from the Dryfork area (between Danville and Martinsville) and even way up there in the hills you could get broadband via a cable line.
My mother lives in what you'd call the boonies, just getting a car to her home was a problem on the Virgina back roads. Anyone that has driven through the area can tell you just how far out in the sticks it is.
I live right over the state line in North Carolina. We do have TWC here but it does not get to every community sadly. Right now I'm on dial-up, but if I was about a quater mile up the road I could have cable. It's not like I'm the only house out here, if they would extend the line they would see many new subs.
Sprint has DSL in the area, but again it does not get far outside of the city. They know they'll have to dig up most of the phone lines out here if they ever want to have anything more than POTS on the line. I guess they don't see it begin worth the money.
I'm not out in the sticks, at least not as far as my mother was. I'm starting to question if we'll ever see broadband in my community. Before anyone says "start a WISP" we looked into it. It won't work with the trees and I doubt we could get a t1 out here at a price that would make it worth it to us.
I wish that I was 5 miles north and in Virgina! |
