DSL bonding

[Jim]

I've read articles saying AT&T is planning on abandoning their copper in 
rural areas when it fails and instead transitioning landline customers 
in those reas to VOIP adapters that will use their 4G network.  Here in 
Tennessee there are lots of hills and not so many people living around 
them.  I know one guy who lives between 2 hills and has no cell service 
at home. When the landline goes down, he has to drive to the top of 
either hill where he gets cell service to call AT&T.  If they're paying 
so little attention to their existing network, I can't picture them 
spending a fortune to build the tower necessary to provide service to 
all their customers out in the hills.

On 8/18/20 3:03 PM, Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> That seems to be the grand irony of fiber - you can have a nationwide 
> backbone with thousands of Gb/s of bandwidth running on your street, 
> and as you said Jim - be a hundred yards short of 25 Mbps. I don't buy 
> a ton of the 5G /we're going to fix all the things /but if fixed 
> broadband could become a reality in the mid-band spectrum, there might 
> be a new last mile in town (and I would move much farther out to the 
> country).
>
> - Thomas Scott | mr.thomas.scott at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mr.thomas.scott at gmail.com>
>
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