In the vast hinterlands known as the American suburbs a great evil has awoken. While those in the cities lie quiet in slumber, FiOS pumping out Usenet data at alarming rates, the poor victims lying quietly in their McMansions are still using cable modems.
Woe betide these suburbanites and their so-called broadband for they are ignored by the big companies. Hear their cries:
In the suburban northern New Jersey town that I live in, we have telephony infrastructure that is absolutely ancient. This is par for the course for many communities all over the United States. We have copper wire dating back to the 1950’s, with junction boxes to match. Most of our telephone wiring is on good ‘ol telephone poles, a lot of them still made out of wood.
Wood! What horrors have these suburbanites committed that the great, dark god Verizonus doth ignore them so!
Suburbanites to arms! Your lifestyle is at stake here. Maybe you all can meet at Olive Garden to discuss this.
Full disclosure – I live in Brooklyn and even I can’t get FiOS, so stop yer whining.
And you are not going to get it for a long long time if ever. The telephony infrastructure in my neighborhood is older than the 50s (1910s actually). And yet I still get high speed xDSL through those critical old lines. Also I have a choice of cable, satellite, city wide WiFi, and cellular. The technology will continue to improve with existing infrastructure as doing anything else is too darn expensive.
And one other thing – wired infrastructure is dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.
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It doesn’t sound like this guy has it so bad. It doesn’t really matter how old wires are, usually they can still handle DSL just the same. I live in a small town of 30,000 and still have 5Mbps broadband and am very happy with it. Everyone can complain about the state of broadband because it can always get faster but sometimes you need to realize that it’s still a lot better then it was 5 years ago.
Odd. In metro Portland Oregon, the suburbs have FiOS and the big city (Portland) does not (and probably won’t ever).
Portland is a Quest area while the Suburbs (particularly to the West of Portland) are Verizon areas (once upon a time GTE areas).