Comments on: Suburbs suffering, no broadband in sight

By: Anoni Moose

Anoni Moose — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:09:50 +0000

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).

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:12:04 +0000

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.

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By: yoshi

yoshi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:28:54 +0000

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.