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jimbopalmer @ 17th Oct 12:10AM:
Re: [Availability] DSL in rural areas

The 18,000 feet limit (as the wires run, not straight line) is a technical limit, not a company policy.
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anon @ 17th Oct 09:28AM:
Re: [Availability] DSL in rural areas

A petition might help but I know of one nearby that 100+ neighbors signed that has yet to see results from ATT. Right now att is putting most of it's resources into Uverse. They don't care too much about pots or even dsl. The company did get or will get federal money to expand fiber in rural areas based on recent legislation but what they'll do with that money who knows.
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NormanS @ 17th Oct 07:27PM:
Re: [Availability] DSL in rural areas

said by nobody :

The company did get or will get federal money to expand fiber in rural areas based on recent legislation but what they'll do with that money who knows.

They have received no money from the U.S. Government, to date, for any reason. They have received tax breaks, in the past; but I will contend that money not paid (as a tax) is not the same thing as money received (as a grant).
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anon @ 28th Oct 10:02AM:
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All that remains is sat, almost as bad as dial up only like ten times the cost and not even constant. The cable trucks have passed my house about ten times, and have requested a survey about six times it always the "We cant expand anymore that way" What about the office you have no seven miles away. WTF I am one and a half miles from dsl and charter cable. I hate all the conglomerates they should get off their ass pull out the dildo and get services to jo blow
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anon @ 28th Oct 07:53PM:
Re: [Availability] DSL in rural areas

All this whining about service. NOBODY bitched when the utilities boards kept the prices frozen for years . The money the telephone company didn't get then - is now the service you don't have. In states that have had higher prices the adsl equipment is already there and Uverse is expanding rapidly .
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simpsomatt @ 30th Oct 01:28PM:
Re: [Availability] DSL in rural areas

Gflash - Are you saying the higher rates people in some states paid for regulated phone service subsidized the installation of DSL/Uverse? Is that legal?
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jimbopalmer @ 30th Oct 02:39PM:
Re: [Availability] DSL in rural areas

said by scrwd by all :

All that remains is sat, almost as bad as dial up only like ten times the cost and not even constant.

1. Dial up
2. ISDN
3. Cellular Broadband
4. Satellite
5. Terrestrial wireless WISP
6. DSL
7. Cable

I swear few of you are looking at more than 4 of these.

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anon @ 30th Oct 04:54PM:
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In a way. The profits made in the higher rate states kept the plant in better condition. The same wires that have to be used for Uverse .Of course it is legal. If there is no Adsl or Uverse to start with the phone company "subsidizes" the service by putting capital into it. How else could it be done? In places where the public has been willing to pay for the equipment the service is now in place. Places where the the state public utilities fight every rate increase in the interest of cheaper service are now backlogged with improvements that have to be done before Uverse can be installed. You don't get what you don't pay for.
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decifal @ 31st Oct 12:58PM:
Re: [Availability] DSL in rural areas

ISDN--have it use it, hate it, but deal with it
Cellular broadband-- extremely moody in my area, unreliable through trees
Satellite, -standard issues, latency, high price for service/caps/lame excuse for broadband
Dialup--Really? you serious?
Wisp- NON in area
DSL- RT not equiped with DSLAM, nor VRAD
Cable-- withen two miles, called, surveyed, not willing to take close's route due to limited homes, however, alternate route more than makes up for it, but they ignore it for some reason..

said by jimbopalmer :

said by scrwd by all :

All that remains is sat, almost as bad as dial up only like ten times the cost and not even constant.