NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to rradina
Re: How will this help?
Having lived in a similarly populated region of California, I know that there is more to it than adding a DSLAM. Line conditioning is no small part of the process. AT&T just strung a new 25 pair bundle on our poles within the last two months; part of conditioning the neighborhood for U-Verse. A new VRAD went in, maybe six weeks ago. But the houses in this neighborhood are 42 years old, or more; who knows how old the copper was before this conditioning took place.
The CO where I used to live served, perhaps, 2500 people within the city limits of Wheatland, California; and probably 5,000 more in the surrounding region of southeastern Yuba county, and western Placer county. They could probably reach 2,000 (80% of 2,500) of those within the city limits of Wheatland, and 0 (0%) of those outside the city limits. Probably no more than 25% of the total population of the region. It wouldn't surprise me that they have DSL in Wheatland, now. But certainly not in Sheridan, California, where I used to live on ten acres of flat plains.
OTOH, I don't see how increasing broadband penetration will help the economy. I think somebody has sold the state legislators a "bill of goods".
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Norman
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