Comments on: Rural broadband tales: Slow speeds and a love of Amazon.com

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:23:25 +0000

Still waiting for high speed! AT&T will not run out to my house because its not cost effective. Not fair you cannot do anything on dial-up!

By: PeteVN

PeteVN — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:40:34 +0000

I am with Frontier and had 30 year olf copper wies w/ 1.5 DL. We got them to bring FTTH because we sited poor telephone lines in the ground not poor internet. They are required by FCC to provide Universal Telephone access to all customers. When I asked for better internet they ignored me. When I sited FCC requirements for my telephone, they agreed to put in Fiber despite the poor ROI on it. Further, they signed up for the latest incentive plan to bring BB to all home in thier market who do not have it so they get about $800 per house to mitigate costs

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:09:46 +0000

Yep, I’m in that boat, too, and allegedly my ISP, Frontier, is trying to get people who complain to switch services to something with LOWER bandwidth as well as a (imho) very low monthly cap. When you call to complain, allegedly they tell you the higher rates are no longer available.

Rural broadband is, imho, getting worse here in the U.S. So much for geographical location not mattering anymore.

By: Robert Burgin

Robert Burgin — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:50:14 +0000

Yea I get an amazing 1.5 mbps down and a whopping 256 kbps up, was told by the AT&T repair guy that It wasn’t cost efective to run their fastest connection to, even though the people 4 houses down from me have it.