for fast access in remote areas try http://www.direcpc.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Nolan ">mdnolan@concentric.net>
To: Christopher S. Adams ">toiletduk@penguinpowered.com>
Cc: ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Affordable ADSL for Paulding County?
> Christopher S. Adams wrote:
> >is there any service that offers affordable adsl for the paulding county
> area?
>
> I've been trying to get something for the five years that I've lived out
> here in Paulding. It's ridiculous.
>
> I stopped down the street and talked to the phone guys working on some of
> those brown and tan boxes you see by the side of the road. Asked them
> about (a/s)DSL, and when they thought it might come this way.
>
> They told me that the phone company has no interest in putting in DSL or
> any other fast access until the cable companies install cable modems. It
> seems that they are so far behind in installation of DSL, that they feel
> that they have nothing to loose by not providing DSL where cable modems
> don't exist. They can't "lose" any customers to cable access, where there
> is no cable access.
>
> Seems incredibly stupid to me. Plus the endless commercials on TV for DSL
> just rub it in.
>
> When I stopped and talked to these guys, they were wiring in 600 pair of
> phone lines for a 200 house sub-division. They said the "suits" think
that
> the average number of phone lines per household is three. No matter the
> fact that when fast access comes through, an astute person could have many
> phones going out one connection, and all doing free long distance over the
> net if they are set up correctly.
>
> My long distance has dropped from several hundred a month to nearly
nothing
> because I have convinced a bunch of folks I deal with who are in other
> parts of the country to use Internet "phone" applications.
>
> Plus the trend looks like the masses are going to skip the hard wire and
go
> wireless for their home service as well. There's going to be a radical
> transformation in the way things are wired, and the way we pay for them in
> the next few years. I think I'm going to sell my phone company stock, but
> I sure don't know what to buy into.
>
> Mike
> (through a very small wire in Dallas, Georgia)
>
>
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