On 4/10/19 1:55 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote:
It seems like_someone_ has to be the CLEC and "Carrier of Last Resort" for the area. Not that that means you are going to get the service you want.
Where I live, you can get AT&T POTS from the ILEC of record. Sometimes it even works...when their cross box/remote terminal isn't full of water, has power/batteries haven't died, etc.! They really push people toward their "wireless home phone" solution which is basically an LTE radio and ATA in a box. It's somewhat significantly cheaper than their wireline POTS service.
No DSL, no HFC/cable, no consumer fiber. T1 is available at full tariff rate from the 90s plus about 20 miles of line extension charges. ISDN is no longer offered (or so they say).
Only wISP worth mentioning (i.e. can deliver more than 1Mbps on a good day) is myself (fiber coming this summer hopefully). Basically the entire township is a dead zone as far as wireline goes. I pay dearly for my dedicated fiber backhaul to make service worth using available.
I'm about 10 minutes from the county seat which has population over 10k and about 45 minutes from downtown metro of >800k. Most gov. agencies have the entire county flagged as "not rural" and ineligible for subsidies. These areas definitely exist.
-- Brandon Martin
