The phone company does not want to add about two switches for you to have DSL If you get it then everyone else will want to get DSL. file a compliant with FCC (www.fcc.gov) about phone company telling you that DSL is not avilable in your area .If you file the comliant in about two weeks you will get a call from the phone company that DSL is now avialable in your area. Good luck I have done this before and I get DSL service.

If you are having problems getting DSL service from the phone company and you know someone who has it with them. file a compliant with the FCC at FCC.GOV tell them(FCC) will not let you have DSL You will have DSL in about two-three weeks.

I live about 10 miles north of Paris and use an aircard for internet because our phone lines are so bad that dial up speeds are in the 20's and the only other option is satellite. I have gone round and round with AT&T regarding DSL especially after I found out that one of their employees lives less than 1/4 of a mile from me and got DSL wired to his house. It's 2010, there should be affordable wireless internet all through the state now. I will make my displeasure with Rick Perry known with my vote in November.

i live in the country outside of moody by the golf course and too have to use dial-up because dsl or no other high speed internet is available in my area ,when i asked at&t about high speed internet where i lived and i was told not to hold my breath, maybe if enough people canceled their home phone and wireless phones through at&t maybe they will get the picture

This article was written over 3 years ago. What has been done about this broadband to rural areas? Is this being pursued anymore? I live right outside of Moody (address is considered Moody), and been there for over 3 years. There's been talk about expanding fixed wireless our way (this was 3 years ago), by local broadband companies, but I call a few years later and their answer is either "it failed" with no explanation or "no future plans to expand". What's the deal? Do you know how close one of the towers is to my home? Each tower reaches out 8 miles for service. I'm . (point) 3 miles too far... 3/10ths of a mile too far??!! I have satellite Internet, but like others, it's unreliable and waaaaay too expensive. Please someone do something about broadband access out to our area. We have a whole division out there I'm sure would also love to have broadband access. And I'm sure they can't even get satellite... you need a clear view of the southern sky.

What about Harrison County? Why doesn't it get DSL? We live in Harrison County, and we're stuck on satellite internet through WildBlue!

Where I live I have been circled all around by people, some in walking distance who have had other options for years. Ive seen stories about third world countries with full fiber optic connections, yet we cant afford to extend cheap systems like DSL and cable a few extra miles. And don't get started on BPL or the hamm radio community will get ticked off. Ridiculous. Its kinda sad that were still expecting to get results from a speEch Perry made over three years ago.

We moved 6 miles out of town in Karnes City, address is Karnes City, but no DSL. We had DSL when we live in the city limits. We have to deal with the high price satellite service. Everyone in Texas needs to drop AT &T as their provider. We can put a man on the moon, call all over the world,foreign countries,etc. what is wrong with this picture. Upgrade the central offices!

Still nothing for those of us 5 miles outside the city limits of Wills Point. We're on Wild Blue satellite internet, but my husband is a photographer and we constantly get bumped back to way below dial up speeds because he goes over the allowable bandwidth just by trying to upload a few photos per month. Not a lot. Just a few. I hate it with a passion. It won't stay connected, oftentimes stalls out and just flat won't go anywhere. My son is getting ready to move out (he works on the computer from home) because he needs dsl and we really need him here. Why isn't there something for the rural areas? (not just in city limits).

I'm right here with you. Its frustrating DSL and Cable are North ,East and West of me . I'm in Rendon and there are people in Mexico that have better internet options than me.Was hoping BPL would make it here but it looks like Oncor has ended that project. I currently use a Verizon aircard At 65 dollars a month . It disconnects about 5 times a day.Unbelievable to be in Tarrant county with no decent internet.

I join your frustration. I recently, along with several other case managers have been given the opportunity to work from home. This is why I accepted my position with the hospital I'm working for. I have been shocked and frustrated that my area, which is 5 miles from Ft. Worth city limits, does not have access to high speed DSL. I need 3 mbps down and 1 up. You'd think I was asking for the moon, evidently I am. I spoke with AT&T several times and they refuse to give me any idea as to when high speed will be available in my area, I even had one person ask me if I considered moving. I was repeatedly told I would be notified when availability was in my area.

These comments were posted over a year ago and yet still no service offered in our area. I've been told by AT&T, my existing phone company (who first told me yes they did offer high speed in my area, actually mailed me a modem, but in fact do not cover my area) and Clearwire that service is not available in my area. One of the above listed actually told me that it costs millions of $$ to provide service in areas like yours and "If I have that kind of $$, I can get service". I do not understand this when my nearby towns only 7-14 miles away do have highspeed/broadband service (as well as garbage collection) but we do not. I have no choice other than dial-up connection and the ISP's provide really nothing more than a hard time for us. Is there really any light at the end of the tunnel for trusted ISP's that will include all rural Texas towns or just the ones that were visited?

Central Offices are not boxes by the side of the road, those are called pedestals or crossboxes. A central office is just what the name implies...an 'office' that is centrally located (usually in town) where the primary phone line or fiber comes in, hits a switch/relay system, has battery backup (that's why regular non-portable telephones work during power outtages) and a multitude of lines leaving the building, usually as thick bundles of wires. These lines usually go to crossboxes and are split up amongst several smaller cables that feed pedestals or terminals on telephone poles and then on to your house/business. Sometimes these crossboxes are underground with manhole cover access. The difficulty with getting DSL to rural areas is that it works by a radio frequency traveling over your phone line. Unfortuantly, this signal doesn't travel as efficiently as regular phone signals, and thus the distance it works over is reduced. I'm not certain about this, but, the typical signal 'cleaners' and repeaters the phone company uses wasn't designed with DSL in mind.

I live in burleson texas, not far from fort worth, but outside what is considered to be city limits, just east of spinx air strip. the entire city has broadband, DSL, Cable, even a citywide airway for wireless internet. but still, people 2 miles outside the city are stuck with dialup. apparently at&t has upgraded the "central offices" (which are just those grey boxes that you see occasionally on the side of the road) but they refuse to turn them on. i have been waiting patiently for two years. charter communications wont upgrade the cable, at&t wont turn on the telephone wires, and there are hundreds and hundreds of residences out here . . . these companies have had way too much time to get their act together. we have to do something.

Do we have a timeline for providing DSL to rural Texas? Where do we inquire? Plodding along with dial-up in Warren.

I live 2 1/2 miles down a County Road from the main road. Gov. Perry said 'When AT&T completes the rollout by the end of this year, all of AT&T's central offices across Texas will be DSL capable and bring high-speed internet access to the most remote communities of Texas.' Pipe Creek is on the list, so why can't I get it? I have to pay 60.00 per month for Satellite to get Internet Service and it isn't even reliable when it is raining or too cloudy. Yes, it is faster than Dialup, but it is also 4 times more than DSL. If I can't get DSL, someone should make the Satellite Providers lower there rates.

Individuals east and west of Wills Point along Hwy 80 have high speed internet access but not North of Wills Point!

I live in Rhome, TX and can't get high speed internet. I only have one choice for dial up and that's it. We are a really small town with very few options. I wish that there was more options.

I live about a mile from a small town(pop. 2500)that has wireless broadband available. The only problem is, the signal is sent from atop a water tower that can't be seen from my house because of a combination of a hill and tall trees between it and my house. If it were sending antenna were located higher up I could see it. Otherwise I have to erect a tower of more than 50 ft. to receive the signal.

Since when are Austin, Waco, Midland, Odessa Lubbock considered "rural communities." Give me a break. At least people in the outlying suburbs still have access nearby. I'd start by extending access to each and every county seat... or better yet, working to eliminate all dead zones for cell phone coverage.

I LIVE JUST OUTSIDE OF LINDALE TEXAS AND STILL!!!! NO!!! DSL!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??? SOMEONE BRING US DSL , PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live in Texas, and a couple of miles outside a town of about 7000 people. They have broadband in town. I live near Deadwood, population about 162 people, and they have broadband now. Still can't get it here. Broadband over power lines doesn't seem to be available either. So I"m still using a satellite connection, where I pay four times as much for 1/8th the speed of your typical broadband-in-the-city connection. $60 a month for 512kbps, and it's not even good for online gaming due to the latency issues with satellite systems.