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> there are four national carriers and a few regional carriers with their own networks. There is plenty of competition in the wireless space. My experience of
by kennywinker 10y ago
> there are four national carriers and a few regional carriers with their own networks. There is plenty of competition in the wireless space.
My experience of rural areas is that there is usually only one carrier that works. Not sure if my experience generalizes, but if I didn't know better I'd say the carriers were colluding either explicitly or implicitly to stay off each others turf.
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- scarface74 10y agoI can't speak for the most rural areas. But when I visit smaller cities - populations around 100K, usually I see people on all four major carries. Going on the outskirts usually it's just Verizon and AT&T.
- mcguire 10y agoNortheastern Alabama here...my choices are Farmer's Telecom Coop's fiber or nothing. CenturyLink's DSL never made it to the nearest substation. Fortunately, the speed's good enough and I'm happy with their service otherwise.