In Virginia, Delivering Broadband To the Customers Big Telecom Forgot 127
cheezitmike writes "A Washington Post story tells how former automotive engineer Paul Conlin just wanted to get broadband at his rural home in Fauquier County, Virginia, and ended up forming his own wireless ISP: 'Paul Conlin, the proprietor of Blaze Broadband, is not a typical telecom executive. He drives a red pickup and climbs roofs. When customers call tech support, he is the one who answers. Conlin delivers broadband to Fauquier County homes bypassed by Comcast and Verizon, bouncing wireless signals from antennas on barns, silos, water towers and cellphone poles.'"
Re:Wait for it... (Score:5, Informative)
Verizon sued a local WISP service where I live (very rural southern Indiana), and they lost. That was around 2004. The company now covers the county.
Verizon (now Frontier) put in DSL a few years later.
Re:Wait for it... (Score:5, Informative)
Already happened in some locales:
Telco wouldn't install fiber network, sued to prevent city from doing so [arstechnica.com] (Another Article: we sue because we care [arstechnica.com])
Louisiana Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Fiber-to-the-Home Plan [lus.org]
Re:Artificial scarcity (Score:4, Informative)
I'd love to know myself, as it has occurred at least twice. See here [arstechnica.com] and here [arstechnica.com].
Re:Wait for it... (Score:2, Informative)
They sued EPB too. EPB prevailed in court, but then the cable companies lobbied to change the laws.
Fortunately for all the 1GBps customers, EPB was grandfathered in.
I've been in an underserved area (Score:3, Informative)