Comments on: “Life Without Broadband” stories http://main.nc.us/whitespaces/2008/10/%e2%80%9clife-without-broadband%e2%80%9d-stories-from-western-north-carolina/ Thu, 23 May 2013 12:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Wally Bowen http://main.nc.us/whitespaces/2008/10/%e2%80%9clife-without-broadband%e2%80%9d-stories-from-western-north-carolina/#comment-4 Wally Bowen Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:28:18 +0000 http://main.nc.us/whitespaces/?p=142#comment-4 Thanks for sharing your experience with satellite service. We hope that the 'white spaces' technologies will be brought to market quickly. First, we have to secure the victory we won on Nov. 4 with the FCC's 5-0 vote. We fully expect the broadcasters to attempt to reverse the FCC action via a stealth provision during the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress. Please keep checking the "White Spaces News" section of the MAIN homepage for updates and action alerts. We will get there! wally bowen Thanks for sharing your experience with satellite service. We hope that the ‘white spaces’ technologies will be brought to market quickly. First, we have to secure the victory we won on Nov. 4 with the FCC’s 5-0 vote. We fully expect the broadcasters to attempt to reverse the FCC action via a stealth provision during the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress. Please keep checking the “White Spaces News” section of the MAIN homepage for updates and action alerts. We will get there!

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]]> By: P Palenko http://main.nc.us/whitespaces/2008/10/%e2%80%9clife-without-broadband%e2%80%9d-stories-from-western-north-carolina/#comment-1 P Palenko Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:05:31 +0000 http://main.nc.us/whitespaces/?p=142#comment-1 Dear Main, I have lived in Mitchell County for most of my life. I run a small business from home plus I homeschool my children, so high speed internet is essential. I am supposed to have satellite service with Hughes Net. Since purchasing my satellite dish ($700) I have found this sort of service to be barely faster than dial up. Plus, at least 35% of the time I have NO SIGNAL at all. I am paying close to $100 a month for this lousy service that doesn't work and their support is horrible. When I call to complain, I am on the phone for hours with someone in a third world country. I have found that since having this service I am linked in a contract that if I break, I must pay $500 yet they have yet to fulfill their obligation to provide reliable internet. Now they are telling me my dish is pointed wrong and that they must send tech support out to fix the problem. This is after a year of this horrible service so it'll cost me an additional $125 for them to come out! The point of telling you this is to let people know, whatever you do, don't go with satellite service. I am getting ready to just STOP paying for this rotten service and I'm not about to pay the $500 for breaking the contract, so this will go against my credit, but I am sick and tired of paying for something that I have NEVER gotten. Thanks main for continuing your endeavors to get decent high speed internet to those of us who've been scalped for far too long by these rotten servers that take advantage of our dilemma. Dear Main,
I have lived in Mitchell County for most of my life. I run a small business from home plus I homeschool my children, so high speed internet is essential. I am supposed to have satellite service with Hughes Net. Since purchasing my satellite dish ($700) I have found this sort of service to be barely faster than dial up. Plus, at least 35% of the time I have NO SIGNAL at all.
I am paying close to $100 a month for this lousy service that doesn’t work and their support is horrible. When I call to complain, I am on the phone for hours with someone in a third world country. I have found that since having this service I am linked in a contract that if I break, I must pay $500 yet they have yet to fulfill their obligation to provide reliable internet. Now they are telling me my dish is pointed wrong and that they must send tech support out to fix the problem. This is after a year of this horrible service so it’ll cost me an additional $125 for them to come out!
The point of telling you this is to let people know, whatever you do, don’t go with satellite service. I am getting ready to just STOP paying for this rotten service and I’m not about to pay the $500 for breaking the contract, so this will go against my credit, but I am sick and tired of paying for something that I have NEVER gotten.
Thanks main for continuing your endeavors to get decent high speed internet to those of us who’ve been scalped for far too long by these rotten servers that take advantage of our dilemma.

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