From Cid Scallet, owner,
My wife Liza and I have lived in Batesville for twenty-four years and know from experience that as high-speed Internet access has become a virtual necessity of life, finding an affordable, reliable method for gaining that access in a rural community has remained virtually impossible.
We have tried dial-up, two different satellite services, and a cell phone company’s portable broadband system, and we’ve found all of them to be severely wanting. It seems that every few months the phone company promises that DSL is coming our way “very soon.” The area’s electric coop has been touting its “Internet Over the Electrical Lines” project for close to ten years. People tell us that cell phone cards work okay—when they are not glitching out or slowing to dial-up speed.
We have heard the sales spiels, subscribed to the services, dealt with remote tech support call centers, and torn our hair out as the “latest solution” has turned out to be little more than the most recent problem. In other words, we’ve experienced what many of you have experienced—and it’s not fun.
So I decided to take matters into my own hands and develop an Internet service that actually worked—and that my friends, neighbors, and I could have some say in, some control over. I believe that I have found this in Batesville Broadband.