They say it might be a couple years before it gets to my part of Johnson County here in Arkansas. Do you think it would do any good to contact my congress rep. ?
2007-08-10 16:27:06 · 6 answers · asked by charlesdclimer 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
that would not make any diffrence if you contact a congress rep... high speed internet is not a guarantee... if they do not believe that it is economical for then to install DSL then they will not.. and with the roll out of FiOS underway... if you dont have DSL, dont expect any type of high speed internet connection from the phone company untill FiOS reaches your area...
it is basicllay baised on revenue.. DSL is old technology, if they did not install it in your area, the demand was not high enough to make the investment, and now that everything is going to be going over fiber optic, for them to go back and upgrade an out dated technology would only lose money... and with all of the compitition that the phone companies have now, they can not afford to make poor investments, have to raise prices....
IF DSL is not available in your area you can either, 1- get EV-DO cellular broadband...
2- get cable modem service if available
3- satellite internet...
there are options.. and there are no laws, or regulations requiring a service provider to make a specific service available in any given area.. perhaps with the exception of voice service, which is why we pay the universal phone service surcharge, to subsidize the people's phone bills who live in the middle of no where, where it cost more to provide the service, then they are able to charge..
2007-08-10 21:19:39 · answer #1 · answered by joe r 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DSL will only work if the end user is less than 5 miles from the Central Office. Some even make a 20,000 foot range, due to the slower speed. (This is wire length.) If you are 4 or 5 miles or more from the Central Office, you will not get DSL service. If you can afford it, cable or satellite is your best bet, and faster. DSL expansion beyond these limits may not happen. Most are looking into Fibre Optic service instead. (FIOS) This will exceed even the speed of cable.
2007-08-11 00:17:13 · answer #2 · answered by RICH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DSL can only work so far from the central office. If you are way out in the country, the DSL signal just cannot reach out there! :)
Also, the farther you are from the CO, the slower the DSL goes. Mine is slow as molasses, but it's way better than dial up.
You will have to find anothe way to get high speed internet, if there is any... :|
~Cindy! :)
2007-08-10 21:18:04 · answer #3 · answered by ♛ CindyBradyTooh ♛ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The company I work for serves customers, outside of our distance limit (18,000') by way of Remote Dslams. Which is just a stand alone DSL box placed near the customers, fed by fiber or in some cases T1 lines. Unfortunately as was said prior, they need to make money. So there needs to be enough potential customers to be worth their while.
2007-08-11 07:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you can't get cable internet either, I would recommend that you try to get a satellite based service.
2007-08-11 08:06:58 · answer #5 · answered by sotires 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have cable tv, ask cable company if they have high speed internet service.
2007-08-11 07:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by Vintage Music 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋