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Contacting the City About Getting Cable or Fiber Installed on my Road?

I live out in the country in northwest Indiana. Corn fields, the occasional tree line, and dusty pollen filled air. Currently, we are severely limited in terms of utilities. However, implementing them would be extremely easy to do. We are limited to Frontier DSL. Absolute trash. Frontier promises speeds of up to 1 megabit per second. Not enough for a family of 5. Each person in our household has a phone, tablet, laptop, and a desktop. The younger kids have iPods instead of desktops. Anyway, you get the idea. Lots of devices requesting instagram, snapchat, etc, etc. Even though Frontier promises that we will have 1 megabit per second, we rarely get 1/4th of that. Everyone who lives around me, including myself, are fed-up with DSL.

Our road is shaped like a capital L. All of the roads around us have access to either Comcast Cable or Metronet Fiber. Neither of which is even available on our road. Just Frontier. From my house, I can see a little box on the side of the road that has Comcast in big letters. Our area is shaped like a big square. the top and right sides of the square have Comcast. The bottom and left are Frontier. All that I'm trying to say here is that we are surrounded by cable and fiber and our road is the rut of the litter. We aren't treated fairly (thats how most internet companies work, right...), but we want Frontier out of the picture. We want Comcast or Metronet Fiber. How could I get the city involved in getting us setup with comcast or metronet?

Update:

Just found out that we can also opt out of frontier for dial-up provided by AT&T. $2.97/ Month. :(

Update 2:

In response to having to pay for it (Post by Demonslayer):

I remember requesting a quote from Comcast a few years ago... I received an email about 8 months later stating that it would cost us $128,000 to get comcast to the end of my 3/4 mile long driveway, then another 46 thousand to get it to my house, and a $575 installment cost. They offered my first month free (yes, one single month on a 25 megabyte per second tier.) This is what I mean when I say unfair. Its time to get the city

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    6 years ago
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    Towns make deals as well as the cable cowponies make deals about areas and such. These areas also cross over into federal communication laws and such. Like insurance companies can't operate across state lines without federal and state consent, cable companies can't operate out of their assigned areas. You can call the other cable companies in the area to see if they can help you out, you can get involved in the local politics to see when the contracts are up and if you can get the twon to switch. You can contact Verizon who have managed to be able to skirt the laws and directly compete with cable in many states.

  • 6 years ago

    you dont contact the city... you contact the specific ISP (who must be in the city already) and then pay them to have it installed... which will be very expensive (10k or more) but if you can split the cost between your neighbors it might be cheap enough per person and raise enough money to get the fiber installed..

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