On 2023-12-20 at 19:39, Felix Miata wrote: > Pocket composed on 2023-12-20 17:55 (UTC-0500): > >> Actually I can not change as the ISP has exclusive rights to the high >> speed internet in the area I reside in. >> >> No other providers are allowed. > > That could be a historical concept, depending exactly on where you live. Some > of > us mericans who formerly had no access to real broadband except via > prohibitively > expensive, high latency satellite dish now have broadband provided > wirelessly. All > the big cablecos have been slowly rolling it out. The areas covered are > limited, > with limited overlap among providers. The targets so far have been mostly > areas > unserved by traditional cable, but there is overlap. Maybe you should check > with > T-Mobile: > https://www.allconnect.com/local/oh/columbus
It is my understanding that there are (or at least have been, and I know of no reason for this to have changed) some apartment buildings, et cetera, in which there is a provision of the tenancy agreement (or whatever else applies) requiring that Internet service be exclusively through the provider chosen by the management of the apartment building. (The question of motivations for doing this, on the part of both the management and the provider, I leave un-discussed for at least the time being.) If that is correct, and if Pocket resides in such an environment, then it is possible that even if wireless "high-speed" Internet access could in a technical sense work in that area it might be prohibited in a contractual sense. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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