If you were to install new facilities to a subscriber in a green field
deployment, what technology would you use? Fiber, right? Once that
fiber is installed, what speed packages are available? All the way to at
least gigabit, right?
Yes, that means that some very rural areas are able to get
Wow.so it sounds like maybe they are offering services but the
donations from the government to fund it certainly don't make it all the
way to the customer! My car loan costs less than your Gigabit ethernet!
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-
That's what surprised me. There I was in my Jeep, traipsing across terrain
that mostly required a Jeep, seeing a house every five minutes. But there
were signs on this "road" saying "100 MBPS+ internet now available, call
us!" And sure enough, talking to a rancher, he gets well over 100 x 20.
Eh. I'm out in the brush. ~5 houses in my 1.5 mile road. Gigabit
internet.
Of course it's ~$300/mo after taxes, fees, surcharges, etc...
...and they can only deliver around 350 Mbit during 'peak' times--which is
pretty much any time not between 1:30 AM and 4 AM.
A more 'reasonable' speed like
I live 15 minutes outside my local city limits and I'm only 45 minutes
from downtown Nashville. My only internet option is satellite. I pay
$160 a month for a service that isn't as good as the $30 DSL service I
used to have when I lived inside the city limits. That may be because
I'm served by
