davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
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Re: Why...
said by GOLFnSUN  :Because phone service is no longer a monopoly. There are plenty of competitors available - from cable to wireless to CLECS. There is no longer a need for regulation. Especially since the new competitors are not regulated. If phone service is no longer a monopoly, could you please come to my town in Person County, North Carolina and tell me who my other choices are?
We're an exurb of Raleigh/Durham... there may be competition in Raleigh but there's none here.
There is no cable phone service here. There are no CLECs. And there is no wireless coverage - not even *analog* cellular - in 35% of the county.
(That's being generous... b/c I'm getting that 35% based on my 5 watt bag phone that I still carry... not my CDMA only handset issued by Alltel.)
Even in the 65% of the county that has cellular coverage, it's iffy. I can't use my Alltel handset inside the house. My firsthand experience w/ the cell coverage here is pretty deep. I'm part of the group who convinced Cingular that they needed to expand from 1 cell tower in the center of town covering just the city limits to a few more in the county.
Go here and scroll down to the bottom:
»www.hycolake.com/CingularProject.htm
The green triangles on the map represent where there is presently NO coverage. Convincing them to being coverage out there took some serious arm twisting and phone calls from some very influential state legislators who happen to to have houses on the lake and can't get coverage at their houses.
Oh... and Bellsouth is the local phone provider in the Hyco Lake area. How convenient that they had no wireless coverage in the area where they offer local dialtone but almost all the area in the county that is Sprint/Embarq territory has great Cingular coverage. Oh... and there's NO Sprint PCS coverage anywhere in our entire county. So Sprint's no princess either.
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roamer1
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Atlanta, GA
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1 edit | said by davoice :There is no cable phone service here. There are no CLECs. And there is no wireless coverage - not even *analog* cellular - in 35% of the county. How is DSL availability? (I'm guessing "rather poor to nonexistent".)
This type of situation is one reason why blanket statewide dereg of ILECs makes no sense -- blanket dereg not only deregulates areas that have significant competition, it also deregulates areas that have none. Deregulating on a rate center-by-rate center basis makes much more sense.
I'm part of the group who convinced Cingular that they needed to expand from 1 cell tower in the center of town covering just the city limits to a few more in the county. I'm quite surprised that it's Cingular and not Alltel or US Cellular building out, given Cingular's all-but-refusal to fix other large coverage gaps (southeast Tennessee) and Alltel's and USCC's fairly good track record in rural areas in NC.
Oh... and Bellsouth is the local phone provider in the Hyco Lake area. Is that area served out oof Milton? If so, BellSouth isn't there anymore, as they sold that area to Madison River/Mebtel (of Vonage-blocking fame) last year, mainly since it's in a Verizon LATA (Danville, VA) and BellSouth couldn't extend its normal network into that area, leaving it all but isolated from the rest of BellSouth.
-SC
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