Most rural telcos offer broadband services, but Internet backbone a...
Most rural telcos offer broadband services, but Internet backbone access remains a challenge, the National Telecommunications Co-op Assn. said. All respondents reported offering broadband to some customers, up from 58% in 2000, NCTA said. But “the typical respondent is…
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125 miles from their primary Internet connection,” and 38% have no alternate provider for connecting to the backbone, NCTA said. Other findings: (1) Most provide DSL service. Other technologies offered by a minority of the telcos: Fiber to the home or curb (28%), unlicensed wireless (22%), satellite (15%) and licensed wireless (13%). (2) About 15% of customers are take 200-500 kbps offerings, 6% get 1 Mbps and 4% subscribe to 3 Mbps connections. (3) 59% of respondents offer video service and 25% more plan to before 2009. (4) About 3/4 plan to offer VoIP but only 3% do so. NTCA said 120 of its 560 companies responded, a 21% return rate.