At Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:34:35 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 August 2012 17:33:01 Robert Heller did opine: > > > At Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:12:37 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> > wrote: > > > On Sunday 12 August 2012 11:04:42 Robert Heller did opine: > > > [...] > > > > > > > Verizon (the telephone monopoly covering most of the Eastern United > > > > States) has no interest in bothering with *any* investment in the > > > > copper infrastructure, including installing the DSLAMs needed to > > > > bring DSL (even cruddy DSL) to rural America. Also, the copper is > > > > old and is falling apart (for lack of1 proper maintainence)-- > > > > people actually completely lose basic phone service when it rains. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > I'll second that, in fact I voted with my wallet 2 years ago when I > > > took offense at having to call the states PUC on my cell phone just > > > to get my pots phone working again for the 4th time, in April since > > > Jan 1. Over 90 of those days I had no pots phone from vz. I've been > > > on cable for both phone and net for over 2 years now. Verizon didn't > > > have a quarter to call anyone who cared. > > > > Unfortunately for people in my area, Verizon is the *only* game in town: > > it is either Verizon's crappy (19th century) phone service or no phone > > service at all. (There is no cable provider and no cell coverage at my > > house.) > > > > > Cheers, Gene > > Get political. Heckle your states Public Service Commission. There is > always Hughes of course, but they want an arm & a leg per month. Satelite is not an option for me -- too many trees. We are already working on a solution here in Western Mass -- some 40 towns have formed a municipal fiber-to-the-home cooperative -- "Wired West". We figure it will take 2-3 years to get things up and running. > > Cheers, Gene -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
