I heard the same story on NPR. The town was good enough for ATT to have a right-of-way, and they couldn't split off a connection? Then again, ATT has never been customer oriented as far as I could see.
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: National broadband Well, I think it would help if the backbone carriers were required to allow local internet providers to tap into their lines. I heard a story yesterday on NPR about a small county in California where there is no broadband, only dial-up and there's a big fat AT&T pipe that runs right through the county, yet AT&T won't sell a connection to anyone there to provide broadband service. They claim that the connection is not "configured for local access" whatever THAT means. According to an expert on the NPR story yesterday, that doesn't really mean anything, it's just a way to prevent anyone else from providing access. I would really like to see some sort of legislation that backbone providers (AT&T, Sprint, Qwest, etc) would be required to sell service to local internet providers. I think that would help quite a bit. Oh, and the state governments should be required to be "reasonable" in their requirements for passing under/over state highways. Right now, I only really have two choices for broadband at my house: the local telephone company and Charter. I'm currently using the local telco because Charter sucks. There's another option that ends about a half mile from my house. According to one of the installers for that third option, the State of Georgia won't let them "drill" under the highway, so they can't provide service to me, despite the fact that the density of the housing is there. From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: National broadband Thoughts, comments? http://www.broadband.gov/ David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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