WillHaeck
join:2002-01-20
Monroe, WA | Sounds like most BB companies
Most every Broadband company will skip certain areas because it isn't profitable. I'm pretty much in one of those areas too. Since their whole companies are pretty much in disarray as it is, it always seems like complaints fall on deaf ears. |
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ced06
join:2004-03-12
Towanda, PA
| said by WillHaeck  :
Most every Broadband company will skip certain areas because it isn't profitable. I'm pretty much in one of those areas too. Since their whole companies are pretty much in disarray as it is, it always seems like complaints fall on deaf ears.
Yup, you hit it square in it's ugly face.
In my town there is one broadband ISP. They provide horrible service at astronomical prices (640k/160k radsl over pppoe for $50/month). It's a monopoly...they are run by Epix, which pretty much every dialup isp goes through in the area. And Common Wealth Telephone owns the DSL isp (which is run by Epix)...and they're the only phone company in the area.
Recently Adelphia decided to rewire/redo the cable infrastructure and provide the town with cable internet...but once again the people like me (living out of town) are screwed over HARD, since they won't lay cable out to my general area (~6 miles from town).
If it isn't the slightest big profitable, they just cross you off their list...why don't they focus on deploying broadband nationwide so they can eventually MAKE it profitable? |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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| said by ced06 :
Recently Adelphia decided to rewire/redo the cable infrastructure and provide the town with cable internet...but once again the people like me (living out of town) are screwed over HARD, since they won't lay cable out to my general area (~6 miles from town).
Would Adelphia do it if you offered to pay them to do it? If you have a lot of neighbors who want broadband the cost shouldn't be that hard to spread out.
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ced06
join:2004-03-12
Towanda, PA | The problem is there isn't. Along that pathway (6 miles) there are maybe 50 houses...it isn't profitable to them. |
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chex5
join:2000-05-24
NorthEnd BOS
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Towanda Penna!
Right at the junction of US-220 and US-6 in North-East Central P.A.! Man, it is GOD's country out there! When I have ridden my motorcycle out there a few times, I feel like I'm in another country, let alone the US of A. Awesome motorcycle riding, excellent rural country, lots of cows and farms. I especially like SR-414 that runs west of Towanda, out towards US-15. Really amazing. You go for miles and miles with passing another car on that road.
A long way from living in Boston!!
NOT a good place for a Broadband infrastructure. If you are 6 miles outside of Towanda, you are NO-wheres-ville. You should feel lucky you can get anything that is over 28k in your area at all. No offense, please.
If you want cheap fast digital infrastructure, move to the city where economies of scale make it possible. If you want clean air, country-livin', live six miles outside Towanda. If you want both clean-air (mostly clean.. manure? ) and cheap net access, well, be prepared to pay for it.
Unless a MASSIVE 'Rural Broadband-i-fication Act' is passed in Congress, like was done for Electricity and Telephone, you aren't going to see cheap fast service in that area for while. With the deregulation push that is so strong in the Federal government today, I don't think that will ever happen soon.
My two cents.
-- Chex
PS: Can I drop in with a 6-pack and split a beer this summer when I'm riding by on my Yamaha??  Least I can do for a unwired country-boy who is addicted to digital speed.
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