An aversion of open, hilly landscapes and trees is apparently responsible for keeping residents of rural Connecticut from getting broadband service from the state’s two dominant providers: Comcast and Frontier Communications.
“I thought I was watching Comedy Central,” said Ralph Wilson, a longtime Charter customer in suburban Los Angeles. He was actually watching a Bloomberg News interview with the CEO of Charter Communications regarding Tuesday’s formal merger announcement.
Bypassed in favor of richer opportunities to the East, Western Massachusetts residents are empowering their communities to deliver 21st-century broadband the big cable and phone companies have neglected to offer.
A Washington state man who just moved into his new home is now being forced to consider selling it to somebody else because Comcast repeatedly misled him about its ability to provide service.
Americans would rather deal with unwanted telemarketing calls, fight their insurance companies, or pay top dollar for oil and gas because almost anything is better than dealing with the cable company if it happens to be named Comcast, Time Warner Cable or Charter.
New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities has heard from hundreds of New Jersey residents about a settlement proposal that would let Verizon off the hook for failing to provide high-speed broadband service statewide no later than 2010. Hundreds of those comments were identical emails urging the state to forgive Verizon.
