A group of Southeastern Kentuckians called the Pine Mountain Residents for Broadband are fed up with using phone lines to access the internet.
From the Rural Blog:
Pine Mountain Residents for Broadband was created after residents realized high-speed Internet wasn’t available in their area despite the multitude of advertisements and mailings from phone company Windstream advertising DSL access, Rend Smith writes for the Daily Yonder.
Windstream offers high-speed access to much of the rural area surrounding Pine Mountain and advertises heavily there. One resident, Samantha Sparkman, says she’s gotten as far as having a Windstream representative schedule an appointment for her house to be outfit for a connection only to see the technician never show up, Smith writes. They don’t feel like they need to bring the Internet to us because there aren’t enough houses,” Sparkman said at a recent PMRB meeting.
They’ve set up a website to advocating broadband expansion, and they’ve made a few videos:
