roamer1
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Re: Why...
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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