Fairpoint Communications is offering Maine an opportunity to improve its technology infrastructure and Ray believes the Public Utilities Commission should support this proposal.
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- Ray Richardson
- I live in Westbrook with my wonderful wife Dee Dee and our four children. We have been residents of Maine for a little over 22 years, moving here from Florida in 1985.
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The technology has changed. Verizon is spending 23 Billion dollars on fiber optic connections to the home by 2010. They are now offering 100Mb/s on optical connections. If this state stays on its current path with DSL, we WILL be in the slow lane. 85% of the state currently can have DSL from either a phone company or a CATV provider. Shop around for a company who will provide optical connections to the home, not a 700 MILLION dollar tax break for Verizon because of thier small size. Optical signals currently support 100Mb/s for fifty miles to the home, where as DSL is 3Mb/s to 18,000 feet. I can see the future and its not DSL. CATV networks can bundle voice, data and video on thier signal. The telephone network we have will only provide voice and data. If you want video its on sattelite. I think the choice is clear Verizon or a company with thier technology should serve this Great state.
I am sick and tired of all this crap about the Verizon build out of network that bring FIOS to Maine. Verizon has no intention of EVER brining FIOS to ANY rural community it serves. Now with the decision to sell Maine Vermont and New Hampshire, all hopes of ever seeing ANY progress, new services or even minor upgrades is lost. Verizon has left Maine already- for 2008 Verizon has no budget to expand services or even maintain what is here today! Its a shame these facts are not out there- Verizon does not want to be here and fairpoint does. Lets support a company that bringing jobs and hope for Maine and not a company that is running away as fast as they can! (Just so you know- DSL can be extended to unlimited distance as long as you place electronics out in the areas you want to serve- Fairpoint has done this already in all the markets it serves)
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