Butler is a suburban county seat with a manufacturing history and a working AK Steel plant 35 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. Next county north, well inside the metro area. It's a small town but there are 200,000 people in the surrounding county. "Rural" and "tiny" are overused.
Not necessarily channeling Marie A. Could just be a callout to Portal.
There's automatic weapons fire all the time at a house about 2000 feet from ours. Hobby shooter, you know. Ashtabula Sheriff's Dept has never checked to make sure we're okay.
Though VZ is definitely going to miss the first BEAD round in WV. The application portal opened today. Guess Frontier will have to handle that.
Well, Frontier has some of the toughest deployment territory in Appalachian OH and WV among others, so there will be lots of chances to cherry pick attractive project areas. Unlike Frontier, VZ can also pitch rural FWA.
Get ready for a big push on the FCC to super-expedite this deal so Verizon can get in on the first round of BEAD allocations next year.
VZ sold its famously shitty Ohio DSL system (zero FIOS) to Frontier in 2010. 14 years later they want to buy it back to "expand their fiber footprint". Well. 28% of Frontier's rural-smalltown locations in OH are fiber, but 59% are still "up to 10/1 Mbps" DSL. Thinking this is all about the BEAD $.
Feature not a bug. Everyone's entitled to one broadband provider. You've got yours, stop whining. bilcal-details.blogspot.com/2024/08/alre...
Last week Governor DeWine's office announced the winners of Round 2 of the state's Ohio Rural Broadband Expansion Grant (ORBEG) competitio...
Meanwhile they're shedding existing customers to competing (cheaper) fiber and 5G. Looks like they're going to be forced to upgrade a lot of their infrastructure with their own money.