[CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

[Jim Brown]

In the Santa Cruz mountains, where I live, AT&T won't repair their wired 
lines AND won't run fiber at their expense to serve existing customers 
in sparsely populated communities. And last I heard, they won't 
reactivate existing lines to serve a new customer at the same address. 
What's worse is that we have NO cell coverage from any vendor, and 
Comcast has only about six hours of backup when PG&E drops, and their 
drops can last 3-4 days.

I'm hoping that a Starlink box can get enough of a view through the 
clearing for our house in the dense redwood forest where we live for the 
system to be a backup for Comcast.

73, Jim K9YC

  On 8/22/2021 1:59 PM, donovanf at erols.com wrote:
> In most of Maryland if your wired connection to the network
> should fail, the phone company will replace it with fiber at their
> expense and the terminal unit they install on the wall of your house
> is ready to deliver cable TV and broadband internet too.  They
> will not replace or repair the wired connection.