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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