In the Southeast, you could get it but it took some more or less annoying negotiating with Bellsouth bureaucracy, usually had install issues because the residen

In the Southeast, you could get it but it took some more or less annoying negotiating with Bellsouth bureaucracy, usually had install issues because the residential installers didn't do it that often, and it was way more than double the cost of dialup. There were plenty of ISPs.