No Rural Internet

For YOU!

If you live in a Rur­al Area of Alaba­ma or Geor­gia, chances are good that you can­not get broad­band inter­net.

Why?

Cen­tu­ry Link sold out to Lumen and Lumen Sold out to Apol­lo Glob­al Invest­ment com­pa­ny (NewYork)

Now Cen­tu­ry-link has been sold to a “invest­ment com­pa­ny” Apol­lo Glob­al Man­age­ment (New York)

The deal which you can read about here, Cen­tu­ry Link sold out to Lumen and Lumen Sold out to Apol­lo Glob­al Invest­ment com­pa­ny (NewYork) This Deal Trans­fers 1.4 BILLION in debt to the so called Invest­ment Com­pa­ny Apol­lo Glob­al Man­age­ment (New York)
Want bet­ter ser­vice,

start here. https://test.adeca.alabama.gov/speed-test/

Here is the thing, this (Invest­ment com­pa­ny) will like­ly and alleged­ly NOT be inter­est­ed in invest­ing in bet­ter high­er speeds of ser­vice and I think that any rea­son­able per­son would know the rea­son why this is true. (1.4 BILLION in debt) does not cre­ate any con­fi­dence that they would be inter­est­ed in build­ing bet­ter ser­vices
(no mat­ter what they might saw to the press)

This is noth­ing new, before Lumen there was Cen­tu­ry link, before cen­tu­ry link it was CenturyTel/Embark Before Cen­tu­ry­Tel Embark there was QWest

On April 22, 2010, Cen­tu­ryLink announced it would acquire Qwest in a stock trans­ac­tion.

Qwest as some may remem­ber was the famous­ly and alleged­ly incom­pe­tent oper­a­tor that aban­doned Mil­lions of its cus­tomers who sud­den­ly were left with no inter­net ser­vice alleged­ly after the com­pa­ny filed Bank­rupt­cy.

So, here we are yet again effec­tive­ly being sold off and sold out, (alleged­ly) to yet anoth­er com­pa­ny in a long line of oth­er com­pa­nies where the bot­tom line remains the same.

Rur­al Broad­band Inter­net which was defined as 10 MB up and 1 MB down, (offi­cial­ly) but is now 25 MB will not be com­ing to ran­dolph or clay coun­ties any time in the near future or per­haps ever…

we should ask the ADECA and the Gov­er­nors Broad­Band pro­gram why we can­not get decent Broad­band ser­vices or Wire­less, (Cell phone ser­vices either)

Cur­rent­ly there are mul­ti­ple fiber optic lines run­ning through Both Clay Coun­ty and Ran­dolph Coun­ty but those High Speed ser­vices, are not alleged­ly avail­able to any rur­al cus­tomers.

Do a Sur­vey, https://test.adeca.alabama.gov/speed-test/