<br><font size=2><tt>cialug-bounces@cialug.org wrote on 05/18/2006 08:03:35
AM:<br>
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> Providing DSL can be expensive, especially when your customers are
all <br>
> over. I'm one of the last people that will defend Iowa Telecom but
they do <br>
> have DSL in 100% of their towns. It gets expensive to put a DSLAM
in West <br>
> Pig's Knuckle Iowa and the recurring cost of dragging a couple T1's
back <br>
> to Newton.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Having DSL in 100% of their towns is great! Do
people remember GTE? The company who would not upgrade/improve anything
out in the small towns. Iowa Telecom is a marked improvement over
GTE.</tt></font>