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To: Olog-hai

How about mandating that telecom companies have to provide at LEAST DSL to people? I live in a rural community with lots of expensive homes (mines the cheapest in the neighborhood, thankfully). I can’t get cable internet, I can’t get fiber (plus it’s too expensive), and just about everyone I know has quit offering dial-up, cell phones work great - in PARTS of the house, and horrible in the others (tree lines and RF deck plating in the roof for heat avoidance is what I’m blaming). There are over 100 houses - many of which would sign up for DSL, and the telecom companies are yanking DSLAMS out of the cities, because they’re going to other technologies. Just put in a freaking DSLAM Verizon!


31 posted on 05/29/2015 9:21:22 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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To: ro_dreaming

So you’re calling for double regulation. Most likely the reason there isn’t any DSL in these as-mentioned “rural communities” is because of federal regulation in the first place.


32 posted on 05/29/2015 9:35:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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