 Review by N10Cities 
UPDATED: 116 days ago
member for 6.3 years, 2989 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Lavaca,Sebastian,AR
 $59 per month (12 month contract)
 about 1 days
 "Reliability of connection, locally owned and operated"
 "None"
 "ONLY FTTH PROVIDER IN ARKANSAS (WOOOOT!)"
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This service is offered via an independent Telephone Company in Lavaca, AR called Pinnacle Communications. Their Internet connectivity is provided thru World Lynx out of Little Rock, AR.
Pinnacle Communications - www.pinncom.com - recently rolled out the only FTTH Telephone/Internet service in the state of Arkansas. They have two levels of Internet Speeds - Premier (512/256 kbps) & Elite (5/2 mbps). Not as fast as Cox currently offers in the area as far as download, but the upload is nothing to sneeze at.
Price of service including bundled telephone service with all the goodies (caller-id, call waiting, voicemail, etc) is only around $59 / month after taxes, etc kicked in. Also have 100 minutes of Nationwide Long Distance thrown in, but I use my cell for that. Still, nice touch.
Although I haven't seen Verizon's equipment first hand, I believe Pinnacle uses similar equipment as far as ONT and UPS. According to Google searches on Pinnacle's rollout, they use GPON equipment
The day I signed up, the tech came out to my new place and had the UPS already installed and connected in anticipation of getting the service ready. For Internet, they run a Cat5 drop to wherever in the house you wish.
Currently, they do not offer television service, but they can if they choose to and are looking at the possibility. If they offered better programming than Cox when they decide to do so, I'll definitely sign up...
They have no download or upload restrictions at this time (it is a small town so not many users to saturate the backhaul), and they have no problems with you running a personal web server as long it is not for a business, so may start tinkering with those a bit.
Will update this as I get some more experience with service. Gonna keep bugging them to raise the download a bit ! 
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