10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

[Geoffrey Oltmans]

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-million-rural-households-in-33-states

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:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> 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
>