Rural Infrastructure thread

[paulsharvey]

With that much infrastructure it is not what I would even start to call rural.
Much rural has no water lines, no gas lines and most of the other utilities are on poles if even available.

Oh, another point; just cause a fiber is there, does not mean its available. Lots of telecoms dont provide home service, they run to commercial customers, goverment customers, and cell towers, as well as sell back bone to smaller telecoms.

One, on the south side of the road, 3 each, 1.25" conduits, single 144 count fiber, I watched in 2016/2017, they run to cell sites, some limited commercial customers, and every single county building in my county. Every fire house, school, library, sheriff's substation, voting precinct, ect. But, they wont run to your house.

 

[paulsharvey]

Maybe a good way to explain it; this is the rural gap between two urban areas. Its still rural, but there is more here then the middle of nowhere where, if that makes sense.

 

[bdhsfz6]

In the rural area where I live, Verizon is on a kick to eliminate copper telephone cables. They now offer 5G internet as well as home telephone service via cell towers. They install a box in the home and wire all the phones to it. The box converts a cellular signal to landline.

It used to be called VOIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol and the latency was terrible, much worse than a cellular conversation, but they've made some improvements. My neighbor has it and it isn't bad. Verizon is offering the service for $30/mo. to try and get customers to convert.

 

[ponytug]

In the rural area where I live, Verizon is on a kick to eliminate copper telephone cables. They now offer 5G internet as well as home telephone service via cell towers. They install a box in the home and wire all the phones to it. The box converts a cellular signal to landline.

It used to be called VOIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol and the latency was terrible, much worse than a cellular conversation, but they've made some improvements. My neighbor has it and it isn't bad. Verizon is offering the service for $30/mo. to try and get customers to convert.

Some of the equipment and providers have settings buried in the control menus options to improve the voice quality. In my experience you really have to dig for them, as it increases the data used/sec, and the telcos don't want to waste bandwidth (on anyone who doesn't really care).

All the best, Peter

 

[paulsharvey]

In the rural area where I live, Verizon is on a kick to eliminate copper telephone cables. They now offer 5G internet as well as home telephone service via cell towers. They install a box in the home and wire all the phones to it. The box converts a cellular signal to landline.

It used to be called VOIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol and the latency was terrible, much worse than a cellular conversation, but they've made some improvements. My neighbor has it and it isn't bad. Verizon is offering the service for $30/mo. to try and get customers to convert.

At my house, we have the T-mobile box, and never looked into an "land line" part, but thats our only real option for internet. Im mostly fine with it, but Comcast is working on (design phase; i get to see things the general public doesnt, not insider info, but also not Easily available) a rural fiber to the home project on my road. Im not 100% sure if we want to connect or not. We are mostly good with the cellular box, but fiber to home would be faster, and more future proof. It also would be Far cheaper to connect during the build, then a couple years later... so, we might connect, and try it,

 

[LouNY]

Many places do not have and likely never will get fiber. And many rural cell towers do not have 5G, lucky to have 4G and LTE

 

[Highlandr]

In the rural area where I live, Verizon is on a kick to eliminate copper telephone cables.

Telcos have been abandoning copper for data circuits for years. Only a matter of time before they do the same for all residential land lines.

 

[ultrarunner]

None of the Wi-Fi internet has availability at my address but go up the street and no problem…

The farm has sewer and gas crossing farm property but because outside the urban growth limit it’s not available to connect… but no problem at ever parcel abutting the farm…

The county powers that be have decided they like the rural farm as a backdrop and never want it to change…

Even the cell tower which ATT spent a lot to research is no longer happening… the dead spot in the road will remain so…

 

[ultrarunner]

Telcos have been abandoning copper for data circuits for years. Only a matter of time before they do the same for all residential land lines.

Just got another letter today urging migration… saying discontinuance awaiting regulatory approval…

 

[paulsharvey]

Telcos have been abandoning copper for data circuits for years. Only a matter of time before they do the same for all residential land lines.

Does anyone under 80 still have a land line? Or, maybe a better way to say it, is anyone intentionally keeping a land line in the modern era? Im 43 and wife is 40, we have never had one as adults, except the one assigned as part of DSL, but even then, no actual house phine.