Comments on: Escambia Again Selects EREC For North Escambia Fiber Internet

By: Eric M

Eric M — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:51:49 +0000

This is great for those that live within EREC’s service area, but leaves out thousands of others. Not everyone who lives in North Escambia has EREC. I guess we’ll be stuck with mobile broadband or satellite for the foreseeable future?

By: Inquiring Mind

Inquiring Mind — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:38:02 +0000

I live on Highway 29 in Molino and have power through FPL. Will I still be able to get internet with EREC? I ask because the article states that EREC already has the infrastructure in place.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:46:36 +0000

COX will obviously need to increase our monthly bills due to not getting a contract upon which they chose to not bid.
Wish I could be billed on the channels and programs that we watch and not all the junk stuff we have to pay for so COX can make money from their advertising,
Our local newspaper has gone UP on their on-line subscriptions and I wonder for What? No extra cost in materials, paper, delivery, gas, or anything….just raised the prices. How long will we continue to support this?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:42:05 +0000

EXPANDING ON:
“Fiber is very cheap putting in the ground is what costs”

26 cents per foot from Amazon, before installation or burial.
13 cents per foot from TTI Fiber Communication Tech. Co., Ltd., before installation or burial. (Just because Google brought up this two first)

In the early days of testing, a fiber optic line was laid across a. 4 lane highway, totally exposed and unburied. At the end of the test it was still carrying signals without problems even though cars and trucks driving over it had driven it into the asphalt.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:27:31 +0000

It would be nice if that happened to include the part of the north end served by FPL, like say Bluff Springs Road for a randomly selected example (that I happen to live on).

David for self-interest

By: 2$Dave

2$Dave — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:44:35 +0000

RaD. Fiber is very cheap putting in the ground is what costs. Not to mention the Management and collection of fees.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:16:31 +0000

Is Cox now going to protest this decision as well? Even though they didn’t submit a new proposal after all the fuss the company made.

By: RaD

RaD — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 21:59:53 +0000

Wow. That is 600 miles is 3,168,000 feet of fiber. That can’t be cheap.

By: Swamp Gas

Swamp Gas — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:17:35 +0000

Glad to see that Cox was coaxed out of this deal by altering the coverage areas. Always more than one way to skin a cat.