said by tmc8080:You don't see Verizon running like a bat out of hell to put LTE or other wireless in rural West Virginia do you?
perhaps some cherry picking in A&T's Bell South geographies might take a bite out of DSL/docsis 2 non-upgraded geographies. much higher density customer base and piss poor competition.
Well said. You will never see Verizon go into rural markets because they understand that the money is in denser population areas.
I have said for many years that deploying the last mile of fiber/cable in this country will take as many years as it took to deploy the last mile of copper.
If it is not profitable for the Verizons because of their overhead, it is a business opportunity for the WISP community because their overhead is so much better managed. Verizon is like the defense department, they do not want for money to burn.
Rural WISPs are a viable proposition. It simply takes innovative management and competent engineering. Actually rural areas are the most promising for WISPs because they are not interesting to the Verizons or other "Cherry Pickers".