Comments on: Escambia County Gets Involved After Numerous Frontier Phone, Internet Outages

By: try mediacom

try mediacom — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:33:08 +0000

mediacom is located behind the BK on trammel square in Atmore open tuesdsday and thursday from 8am to 4:30pm closed at (1pm to 2pm for lunch) and and my friend has mediacom and it is way faster compared to the very bad Frontier and mediacom should come in to the walnuthill and bratt area i think they will come to molino.

By: Tired

Tired — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:05:19 +0000

At a friends house & ONCE AGAIN SLOW INTERNET from frontier…….frontier sucks!!

By: Caraway Bandit

Caraway Bandit — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:11:28 +0000

@billy jim You are DEFINITELY not the only one complaining. I pay for max and like you get plagued with slow speeds. I emailed every single manager in the south east region and complained. Had a tech at my house the next morning and they changed my provisions.

By: randy

randy — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:52:23 +0000

I am still not satisfied with FRONTIER. I feel if there was another internet provider availble to us out here FRONTIER might get better and cheaper.

By: just me

just me — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:11:06 +0000

Sam,
sorry but you are wrong, at one time that was the situation but not anymore. In molino i no frontier is serving a buss thats in “att’s area” they were asked to put in lines there but didnt want the buss so frontier put in the lines,in another area att and frontier are on the same side of the rd. A person that lives there has a choice of frontier,att,or brighthouse cable. I have had experience with all of these companies and one just aint any better that the other. I will say this though i know people that work at all of these companies because of being in the buss and most of them are good people just trying to make a living doing the best they can with what they have to work with.. the problem is usally in uper management trying to save money..

By: sam

sam — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:47:33 +0000

just me: you are wrong. at&t or any other company cannot go into another companys area. frontier has i guess you call it a franchise. your fed government blocks at&t, verizon, etc from coming in. thats called a monopoly. if frontier did not want it, any other company could bid on it. if no one wanted it at&t or verizon could be forced to take it. at least that’s the way it used to be. we been obama’d so who knows what gives now.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:06:40 +0000

It is obvious that Frontier is not popular here. Many people have ditched their land lines for wifi/cell phones. The only problem there is when hurricanes come in the cell phones/wifi don’t work. Not sure if there is a solution other than a competing phone company. Is that a possiblity?

By: billy jim

billy jim — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:21:51 +0000

I’m tired of them slowly lowering walnut hills speed . I was one first to get high speed DSL when it got here. They finally had us just over 1 meg but shy of the 1.5 it should be. we started off with down ld. 1100 and up load was 530 -560 and ping was good with 15 -45 mil sec. now we’ve been steady disconnected and takes forever to watch news video.but our speed have been dropped to upload speed of 160 from 265 and before that drop from near 560 upload speeds. Mow told get used to slow speeds . I race online and that speed keeps ping high and packets jam and I m forced to lower grafix in simulator just to be able to race with small numbers of racers on not so grafix intense track, so much for being able to use 3 screens and and all my extra gauges and 16000 RPM tach. Its just not right that we are near 10 % globally for DSL speeds. since Im online 12-18 hrs a day I notice all the fluxuation of speed right away and now i’ve been told im only one complaining and need to get used to what were given. grrrr.ITS NOT RIGHT, if there’s fiber optic lines to molino then you cant tell me there isnt enough room for everyone to have higher speed of our 1.5 mb and at least 550 range upload speeds. ty for letting me rant./ billy

By: just me

just me — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:50:38 +0000

all you people wanting att to come in. let me tell you att or anyone else can come in this area any time they want, its not regulated anymore. but they want ,why? because we are in a rual area and the money it takes to run it just isnt there.mcdavid area has had att forever and gues what they still DO NOT have any highspeed internet avalable to them. i know pople in the area who have asked frontier to take over that area because with all the proplems they may have frontier atleast will put dsl out in every back rd. they have. By the way the last 2 times frontiers internet was down it was because att let thier fiber get cut by a road crew.That was true , not an excuse ,true frontier should have a loop for a back up but as with every buss it s all about money, i understand that is now being spent so sometime in the near future that problem will be fixed.I got alittle mad to when it went out but really people is face book that important? i see my neighbor just half mile up the rd with att and dial -up and i say i will take an outage here and there.

By: OldPhoneRep

OldPhoneRep — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:11:40 +0000

@Stacey, you are right it is crazy, and @huh is right too-our public service commission is useless and we have let it happen, by not protesting it enough. @JayW you are right deregulation should never have happened-and there are plans to deregulate other public utilties as well, i.e. your electricity provider. It would probably take an act of congress, literally, to to actually get us a true choice of carriers. And we all know how well that works! The link to the LEC map is below. Click here.