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join:2002-12-03
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| MTPCS PCS started out its wireless life as a small, regional, less expensive alternative to the high cost, low cap, stingy bandwidth, crappy phones, and outrageous plans offered by the Big Three. By comparison PCS phone was easy to use, inexpensive, and it offered hugely popular small plans for those who talk and text little.
PCS was successful in large areas such as Dallas, but not so much in some of Dallas' farther removed suburbs.
Admittedly Verizon has decent, but not spectacular rural coverage in some parts of the US, but not others. It suffers greatly in the mountains, the heavily forested very hilly areas, and in the desert, where TracFone and Walmart does it better all day and in every way.
It will be very interesting to see what the PC-V can actually do and at what cost.
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Camden, TN | Re: MTPCS said by linicx:Admittedly Verizon has decent, but not spectacular rural coverage in some parts of the US, but not others. It suffers greatly in the mountains, the heavily forested very hilly areas, and in the desert, where TracFone and Walmart does it better all day and in every way. You do realize that neither Tracphone or Wal-Mart has it's own towers or infrastructure. They use with At&t, Sprint or Verizon's networks. | |
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join:2002-12-03
United State | Re: MTPCS Yes, and they do it better without a two year contract.
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join:2004-02-24
Joaquin, TX Reviews:
 ·HughesNet Satell..
| Petition for low-latency broadband in rural areas I know it won't work, but thought I'd try anyway. I've created a petition for high speed, low latency broadband, in rural areas. This is at the Whitehouse petition website:
We petition the obama administration to:
bring high-speed, low-latency internet access to the rural areas of the nation, equal and on par to that of urban sites.
We live in a broadband age but most rural citizens have difficulty participating. Such areas have no cell coverage, no cable access, no wireless (microwave, etc.), and no DSL for internet. There is no high speed internet.
Satellite access is the only alternative, but the latency is such that VoIP, video-conferencing and other technologies requiring internet, but with low latency, is difficult to obtain. Urban areas typically have no problem.
This means that existing rural businesses, which are upgrading programs, are unable to obtain low-latency broadband for their operations, and may have difficulty in communications.
Just as rural electrification and telephone expansion occurred after WWII in the rural areas, similar opportunities for broadband should be done in the rural areas.
LINK: »wh.gov/9vJf | |
| | | | Re: Petition for low-latency broadband in rural areas "We petition the obama administration to:
bring high-speed, low-latency internet access to the rural areas of the nation, equal and on par to that of urban sites."
I don't think my 8 year old son's generation is far enough in debt yet. Let's run the National Debt up even more so we can get Cheap TV, Internet, and Phone service.
There are trade offs to living in the country and in the city. Rural areas will get higher speed internet but it may not be as fast as you want. There is no reason to make this a federal project that runs up even more debt.
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join:2004-06-21
Mississauga, ON | Re: Petition for low-latency broadband in rural areas You do realize there is a difference between debt and investment right.
Paying for special interests, slush funds, munitions, enforcing monopolies is an expense - Infrastructure is an investment.
Oh, and save your breath all you who say internet access is a luxury. Do us all a favour and do without net access either directly or indirectly for a month or so THEN MAYBE we will consider whatever you say is based in some modicum of reality. If third world and baltic contries with populations the size of small cities can wire themselves then what is the excuse for our high density cities? | |
| | | | | | Re: Petition for low-latency broadband in rural areas No, spending millions and millions to lay fiber into these areas where you are spending $20k+ per home to light is money we do not need to spend right now.
Make changes so WISPs can continue to fill this void so that private business is spending their money and not our government.
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join:2004-02-24
Joaquin, TX Reviews:
·HughesNet Satell..
| Re: Petition for low-latency broadband in rural areas So, the general consensus of the group here is that there will be a class system as the internet evolves and further leaves the rural businesses, farms, and homes behind. That amazes me....
I certainly don't advocate the government present 100% funding, but there are grants and investments, just as there were when telephones were brought into the rural communities.
BTW, fiber has already been brought into most rural areas. The DSL switching system hasn't. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Petition for low-latency broadband in rural areas said by lrymal:So, the general consensus of the group here is that there will be a class system as the internet evolves and further leaves the rural businesses, farms, and homes behind. That amazes me.... I don't believe anyone has stated that. What is being discussed is using economical alternatives to provide service instead of the USG dropping billions of additional dollars on lighting every nook and cranny of the country with fiber (when many of those nooks and crannies don't even care about, or understand, the differences in transmission mediums). Wireless is a technically and economically viable solution for the near- and mid-term. | |
| | | | | | | | I am not against rural areas having broadband at all. I am just against the Government adding more and more and more debt for entertainment use. We are still a long way from having to have 100Mbps+ speeds, a very long way yet everyone thinks that every square inch of the US needs it right now right this very minute.
I was not around when we wired the US for telephone and electricity the first time around but I would suspect it didn't happen over night.
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