30 Dec
2015
30 Dec
'15
2:06 p.m.
It doesn't much matter who the telco is for CAF money to be awarded... you
can see who has been awarded what money on the FCC's website, and
CenturyLink has definitely gotten a large sum for it ($500M/yr for 6 years).
Here's a press release on Clink's own website:
http://news.centurylink.com/news/centurylink-to-bring-broadband-to-1-2-mill…
Poke around on FCC for CAF and you're sure to find deployment maps.It is a
sizable chunk of money up for grabs.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12/30/2015 11:59 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Jim Brain
<brain at jbrain.com> wrote:
Probably because we're served here by one of the big outfits
(CenturyLink), that sort of money isn't available for us. So we rural folk
still suffer--because it doesn't pay to deploy service to low-density areas.
It really is amazing that I've been living with internet service that
wouldn't even tax a 10base2 "thinnet" LAN connection. In the meantime, CL
still pays an annual dividend of something like 8% to its stockholders.
--Chuck
We were spoiled in South Dakota, as somehow (and
I am sure someone
knows and will enlighten us/me) the rural telcos (LECs?) tapped
into lots of funds from somewhere to drop fiber to all of the rural
homes. 50Mb was the slowest speed, as I recall, for data. The
catch was that you had to buy a telephone service with your
Internet, probably for some legal/regulatory reason. But, it was
cheap, and we bought just the basics, and 50Mb was more than one
could expect when you are 8 miles from the nearest town and on a
large acreage. So, in markets where this type of service is
offered, I think telcos will thrive.
Probably the FCC's Connect America Fund. This is meant to do for
broadband what the REA did for electrical power.