[NacMacFeegle]

After years of avoiding the issue Centurylink has finally agreed to replace the ancient and decaying copper phone line to my house. In recent months the crackling and distortion on the line has become too bad for them to ignore, not to mention the problems it causes with our DSL internet. I would be happy with this, if it weren't for the fact that they are replacing it with another copper wire when there's a fiber optic line right there in the road! Apparently their policy is not to run fiber optic lines to houses in my area, and I can't for the life of me begin to think why! I can't believe that copper is cheaper than fiber optic, not with copper being so valuable as to have thieves tearing down power lines to get it. Surely fiber optic is both faster, cheaper, and longer lasting, so why not install it instead? They'd be able to sell me more expensive faster internet for crying out loud! I'm sure there's some hidden way that they profit from not installing fiber optic, I just can't figure out what it is. I wish we had multiple ISPs in the area so that we could at least benefit from the competition. As it is we're stuck with this one dumb, malicious, greedy corporation.

[mike]

[lookout bob]

( as does Comcast.... )

[IanB]

$50/month for (barely) 1MB/sec.

[cdestroyer]

I am not fully aware of what each regional phone company obligations are but I do know that ...the city of portland oregon sawed grooves into many of the city streets to install fibre optics, and they also rewired their convention center with the same...not sure if it was vancouver washington or some other city that installed fibre optics on telephone poles running down the alleys of most of the city.....the phone company is not obligated to provide data services to anyone, that being said it is still a monopoly of sorts even after that major breakup years ago... I think I have posted in other sections herein this forum about MONEY and TECH... we have no money, and the tech is available but we have no money and we give most of our money away on idiotic projects, like compensate hostages of iran embassy with our money which we dont have, need I say more??? we dont have any money....and if you think the phone company is gonna rewire all the lines they have and install fibre optics then I have 5 acres of land for sale in the osceola natl forest in florida for sale, cheap...

[Slugman]

Why attack their reasons when you admit you have no idea what their reasons are? That would be like attacking a movie you have never seen. Oh, that's right, you did just do that.

[cdestroyer]

Slugman Slower than ever thats a perfect fit

[boot up]

FIOS fiber right up to our house. just sayin'

[Randito]

http://broadbandmap.gov/

[mike]

Worthless, data shown for my area was totally wrong. Nothing even remotely resembling reality.

[Randito]

[Backpacker Joe]

[Malachai Constant]

I am actually fairly satisfied with Comcast, only problem is that every year you have to threaten to cancel when they bump the rate. At least CL has been very aggressive in Izzy making negotiation easier. I looked up the customer reviews on CL and determined that it was a bit of a hollow threat on my part, however.

[NacMacFeegle]

[kbatku]

We have Charter and I am most pleased. I've never got above 10MB/S on downloads (supposed to be 60) but I can't complain as it streams HD video just fine, even with multiple accounts signed on at the same time.