[TriLUG] Call and urge Perdue to veto H.129 or it becomes law tonight!

[Reginald Reed]

Just another data point - I live in Morrisville, right on the edge of
Wake county and I have exactly *1* broadband option, TWC.  Thankfully
the network infrastructure is new (~5 years old) and I get good speed,
but I have no alternatives!  My home is below street level and
Sprint/Clearwire WiMax is only guaranteed "on the street."  Verizon
barely could furnish a phone line and it usually didn't work, so we
got rid of it.  I can't even imagine attempting to use DSL over that
line.  And now that Frontier has bought up all the crappy areas that
VZ never really invested in beyond a small number of FiOS buildouts
they included to get regulatory approval (my opinion), I don't ever
expect them to ever over competitive broadband in my neighborhood.

--Reggie

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Allen Freeman <knieveltech at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wireless providers are also frequently slow even when you do have coverage. I'm in Durham (?!) and I have to maintain two internet connections (Time Warner and Clearwire) at the house to cover outages since I work from home. Between those two carriers and the data plan for my phone I'm paying well over a hundred dollars a month just to be able to do my job. From where I'm sitting some market competition would be pretty nice right about now.
>
> --- On Sat, 5/21/11, Christopher Blackmon <ckblackm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Christopher Blackmon <ckblackm at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Call and urge Perdue to veto H.129 or it becomes law tonight!
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 4:32 AM
>
> I live in Garner... and the only 2 high speed carriers I'm aware of would be
> Time Warner and AT&T, although
> some wouldn't consider AT&T's DSL service high-speed.... U-verse isn't available
> here.
>
> I wasn't really counting the wireless providers because, imho, they tend to be
> expensive and can have
> spotty coverage.
>
> Christopher.
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Magnus <magnus at trilug.org>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 6:26:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Call and urge Perdue to veto H.129 or it becomes law
> tonight!
>
>
> On May 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Christopher Blackmon wrote:
>
>> There's generally no or very little competition with high speed internet
>>access,
>>
>> either.
>
> Christopher, I don't know how things are where you live, but I live in Raleigh
> and I have a few different (wired) high speed internet vendors to pick from and
> another number of wireless high speed internet options to choose from. I didn't
> like how my provider was treating me so I switched.
>
>
> So it's not really true that there is a monopoly, but I will agree that the
> current legal landscape makes competition damned difficult.
>
> Magnus
>
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