golfgeek
join:2005-11-21
Bryans Road, MD
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Re: Here is the area of Md eastern shore that will be affected
And this means absolutely nothing if a service provider is not willing to carry the last mile.
They keep promising rural areas....Funny how they stick to the most unrural area on the Eastern Shore. Salisbury.
What about the people in Chestertown? Rock Hall? Cecil County? Southern Md? They will be forgotten. |
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newview
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Parsonsburg, MD
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| said by golfgeek  :They keep promising rural areas....Funny how they stick to the most unrural area on the Eastern Shore. Salisbury. You got THAT right.
I live 10 miles from Salisbury . . . the little town called Parsonsburg. I have NO broadband choices other than Comcast (and satellite, which I don't consider broadband). Verizon offers DSL in Salisbury, but not in the surrounding area. Seems like they cherry-picked the high-density population and said to hell with the rest of us.
I can only assume they intend to do the same thing when, and IF, FIOS ever comes to the area. The last time I talked to a Verizon rep, they indicated FIOS would probably take 10 years.
You want to help us rural folks, Senator Mikulski? Demand Verizon buildout to at least provide DSL to those who have NO competition. We paid they damn Universal Fees for decades to Bell Telephone and then Verizon and we got NOTHING for it.
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DownTheShore
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said by golfgeek :They keep promising rural areas....Funny how they stick to the most unrural area on the Eastern Shore. Salisbury. To those of us from other places who've visited Salisbury, it IS rural.  
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bfncbs1
join:2005-11-16
Charlotte Hall, MD
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Hey at least you have comcast....Which is better then most of us can say.
I'm stuck in one of those areas in Southern Maryland where there is no cable. Sprint rev-a coverage is terrible. Had Direcway for years and it was horrendous. I now have Verizon Rev-A and happy to have something resembling broadband but caps on the service limit what you can and can't do.
And networking with EVDO can be expensive and I don't consider ICS a solution. |
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TK Junk Mail
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Margate City, NJ
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said by newview :I live 10 miles from Salisbury . . . the little town called Parsonsburg. I have NO broadband choices other than Comcast You want to help us rural folks, Senator Mikulski? Demand Verizon buildout to at least provide DSL to those who have NO competition. We paid they damn Universal Fees for decades to Bell Telephone and then Verizon and we got NOTHING for it. So you do have high speed broadband with Comcast and at similar prices to what Fios would charge.
It sounds to me that you are ahead of the game compared to most rural areas.
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bfncbs1
join:2005-11-16
Charlotte Hall, MD | reply to DownTheShore
No offense to Salisbury but compared to the surrounding areas yall are BIG CITY.
Easton, Kennedyville, Chestertown, Rock Hall, Point Lookout, Ridge, Charlotte Hall, Nanjemoy are what I consider dense. |
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