Comments on: Rural America and Broadband http://blog.eronj.com/2006/09/28/rural-america-and-broadband/ Ron K. Jeffries -- Listen, read, think, write. Rinse and repeat as needed. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:56:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tom Evslin http://blog.eronj.com/2006/09/28/rural-america-and-broadband/#comment-21983 Tom Evslin Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:39:48 +0000 http://blog.eronj.com/2006/09/28/rural-america-and-broadband/#comment-21983 Almost completely left out of the NY Times article is the fact that Vermonters are doing a lot on their own to make up for the lack of service by Verizon. Vermont-owned Waitsfield Champlain Valley Telecom offers broadband to all of its rural customers despite the fact that many are rural. WISPs (wireless ISPs) are filling in rural donuts around the village centers Verizon has cherry-picked for DSL (thanks to long-ago monopoly franchises it inherited). More on this at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/09/broadband_acces.html. Almost completely left out of the NY Times article is the fact that Vermonters are doing a lot on their own to make up for the lack of service by Verizon.

Vermont-owned Waitsfield Champlain Valley Telecom offers broadband to all of its rural customers despite the fact that many are rural.

WISPs (wireless ISPs) are filling in rural donuts around the village centers Verizon has cherry-picked for DSL (thanks to long-ago monopoly franchises it inherited).

More on this at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/09/broadband_acces.html.

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