That might be worth looking into.
But from what I understand these sorts of companies are either restricted regionally in their sales market, or their access to the networks they rent space on is regionally bound in some way.
I think everyone around here has tried another carrier or a MVNO. One of the nasty things that happens, even on Sprint. Is that some bits of my area you end up roaming. I know some one who only realized the exact square mile around their house wasn’t technically covered when a large bill for roaming charges arrived.
And even on Verizon there’s one particular restaurant we eat at out here. Where if I sit in their patio area my phone is technically roaming. It’s a weird confluence of being in an outlying area of an outlying area, being at the very border of US land mass, low local population and just how hard the monopolies are out here. And even 10 or 20 miles west none of this is an issue.
I think I’ve gone over before my options for broadband internet coverage. Option one is Optimum/spectrum. Option two is to pay out of pocket to have the infrastructure to connect our neighborhood to fiber installed. Then ask very nicely if Verizon might like to connect that stuff to FiOS so we can pay them for internet. When our home owners association looked into it the minimum cost was going to be $45k to the group and then a grand or two at each house for the individual hook ups. And that was only if we could convince Verizon to run the wires to their service area half a mile down the road at their own expense.
Satalite tv is a hard no. No company will service our couple of blocks as there aren’t enough houses occupied year round for them to bother. And when I say hard no, I mean that’s what the company tells you when you call and ask.
Shits weird here.
