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Dear Editor:
Are the people in the small town of Beallsville being kept in the dark ages for any particular reason?
When cable television was first available, we were the last town in the area to get it. Now, that same cable company cannot (or will not?) provide us with cable Internet access while residents of small towns such as Malden and Vestaburg are happily checking e-mail, downloading MP3s and surfing the Internet at high speeds.
Last winter, commercials advertised that service was now available in all areas. Excited, I arose early the next morning and sat by my phone waiting for the office to open. I made the call with payment in hand, eagerly anticipating my pending cable modem, only to be told that the commercial was a mistake and needed to be taken off the air because, alas, we were not in the coverage area.
I was told we would have this service available by spring. I am highly discouraged as I have been told this three years in a row.
I live on Route 40, one of the most traveled roads in this area. I am also a computer technician and now it is a simple matter of installing the modem (which I will gladly do myself, as I build my own computers) and making one connection on the pole outside. Yet, daily, I am forced to watch the commercials advertising what I cannot have.
Discouraged, I turned to my phone company, intending to settle for DSL, not the high-speed solution I was hoping for, but faster than the dial-up I have now. To my amazement, I found the only company that provides local telephone service to this small town does not provide DSL or even a local dial-up number. I am beginning to feel as though there is some sort of dark plot to keep this small rural town firmly locked in ancient times.
Something must be done about the inconsistencies in the technology in this town.
We need to be allowed to move forward and grow with the rest of the world, and we deserve fair treatment from the companies that provide the services we have come to depend upon in our daily lives.
Marna Bare
Beallsville