Hello, Telco sent out a friendly tech who lives in a semi-rural area as I do. He informed me that there were no problems from AT&T's perspective but admitted that the lines were old, probably somewhat corroded and had not been replaced because of the concentration of users in the area. He said the cost of running new cables - from the box that connects with the trunk line from the main switch - to the homes and businesses in the area was around $200,000. And that box is about 2 miles, as the crow flies, from the main switch in the nearest town. The likelyhood of an upgrade is slim unless the Fed starts to print money for everyone, including AT&T, who decides to update the telecommunications infrastructure. The problems I can fix are an old, faulty phone and some jacks that I can replace myself. Probably, just going to have to keep working with the slow dial-up. At least my ISP serves many people in the area with similar problems and offers an $80 per year connection package. You can't beat that price and with poor quality lines, why pay more?
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