Comments on: Escambia County’s Next Step Toward Broadband Internet Network Coming Soon

By: Options Are Needed

Options Are Needed — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:38:40 +0000

There needs to be more options for internet service. Nearly everywhere, with the exception of the north end of Escambia County has internet options. I do not like that Brighthouse (now Spectrum) and sole territory. In Pensacola you can choose between Cox and AT&T. In Pace/Milton, you can choose from Comcast or AT&T. Let the people choose who they want each year.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 04:24:53 +0000

and you best believe the USA, particularly the southeast, has the worst internet in the world.

By: Yellerhammer

Yellerhammer — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:35:03 +0000

Have it for every one or not at all.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:34:14 +0000

Unfortunately due to deregulation from the FCC close to 20 years ago, service providers are able to pick and choose where they provide service. As a result of deregulation, the service provider can select essentially who gets service instead of providing blanket service to region. New neighborhoods are an easy market to capture service vs established homes that are isolated. To be fair to the service provider, it is expensive to invest in infrastructure that could potentially never be used by a customer. So the result of all this is that new neighborhoods get newer high end service and older homes and areas with lower population density get less choices for service and sometimes lower quality service through no fault of their own.

By: Mike J.

Mike J. — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:47:07 +0000

Spectrum (formerly Brighthouse) is my provider in Beulah, District 1. Internet service is spotty often, like last night. The new neighborhoods get fiber. Will existing neighborhoods and streets get converted to fiber?

By: ProudArmyParent

ProudArmyParent — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:46:48 +0000

Living on the outskirts of Century our only choice is Hughes network, at night the signal stinks and don’t ever let there be a rain storm. We lose both the internet signal and the TV. It is quite dangerous not to be able to pick up NEWS or a Weather Report!

By: sam

sam — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:07:47 +0000

i live in century. have at&t DSL works fine. texting, email. works great.

By: lzhome

lzhome — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:41:28 +0000

Starlink has been my solution since January 2022. The service is great but it comes at a price, $110/month. Doubt the county or its contractors will ever be able to bet Starlink in rural Molino.

By: In the woods

In the woods — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:45:54 +0000

@ Quintette Rd

It could be worse. You could have satellite internet like the ones of us at the north end of the county. It costs $200/mo for 100gb and you can’t stream anything.

By: Quintette Rd

Quintette Rd — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:13:58 +0000

On behalf of everyone that lives off of Quintette Rd, please get us another option that is not Spectrum. They are garbage, but they are our only option at this point. We would prefer an ISP that doesn’t go down multiple times per week for several hours at a time.