said by Tweakbl:To Verizon and Frontier,I could care less which of you own the lines in West Virginia.
The lines in Rosedale West Virginia Date back to the 1940's because someone is to cheap to upgrade them.
Everytime it rains here the line drops and/or pops and crackles.
Verizon "fixes" the boxes by placing a GARBAGE BAG over them to keep rain out.
We ALL want DSL in Rosedale.Verizon is to cheap to listen.
The new Water line project is coming through with Goverment Monies and the PSD and Verizon could not come to terms with each other.(One hole,2 lines)
We have DSL 15 miles in either direction but nothing here.
Also if Verizon thinks that it will come back to West Virginia and huggie huggie kissie kissie and lure us away with a new type of wireless connection,it had better be one heck of a connection, because the Mountains are hard enough to try and get cellphone service and regular Wifi over.There is only so much one can do with Line of Site connections and when you have peaks and Valleys they tend to degrade.
West Virginia should maybe look into making its own DSL service with the lines that Verizon is to cheap to keep updated.I know there was WVBroadband and self help associations but they can only do so much with so little.
This is quite the truth. I don't live all that far from Rosedale (timewise or distance wise... just 2 exits up on I-79 from me) and can tell you how horrible the phone lines are there. Wireless/Cell service is even worse. Even along I-79, cell service is spotty at best. Get away from I-79, and there is no cell service at all unless you live on top of a mountain and have clear line of site to one of the cellphone towers they place once every 10 miles... and even then, you gotta wiggle your left foot while hopping on your right and doing 'the egyption' with your right arm to get signal...
WV is a forgotten state, but looking at it from a business perspective, I can't blame Verizon or Frontier. There is no ROI here. The only reason Verizon was upgrading their lines in the coal-fields is the lines were so old, they couldn't even handle dial-up properly (know this from experience working at local isp's for a few years in the past).
I'm pretty lucky to live in an area where back in the early 90's, the company that covered us before Frontier (i think Citizens/GTE?) got a government grant to replace our main lines with fiber... so it's FTTH here... I think my line is only 1 1/2 miles to the hub that services my area.
Only issue is, all the lines in the county go out the 3 fiber lines (from talking to a friend that works at Frontier, we have 3 strand fiber running in and to each hub)... out a small country road that everytime it snows heavy or there is a housefire or a wreck, knocks out Internet/Non-Local phone for the whole county 1-2 days till it's repaired.
But eh... other than that.... Much better than dial-up or relying on Hughesnet or Wildblue.
