If the price seems somewhat hair-raising, Tresp points out that most cable, Internet and phone packages top out at over $100 a month, and Tresp said Verizon's DSL basic service tops out at download speeds of only 760 kilobytes per second and upload speeds of 128 kilobytes per second.Īccording to the company's Web site, WiSpring's packages offer an average of 1.0 megabytes per second for both downloads and uploads. Both packages require either a one- or two-year commitment for $499.95 or $399.95, respectively. 'But you can't see (WiSpring's) towers, they rise to just above the tree line.'įor business customers, WiSpring offers three different packages that range from $79.95 to $119.95 for home service, packages start at $59.95. 'When people hear 'tower,' they always think it's a cell (phone) tower,' Tresp said. Another mast, also located in Alford, will be erected in the spring. The signal is broadcast from WiSpring's tower located at the summit of Catamount, on the Egremont and New York border, and from a smaller tower, known as a mast, located in Alford. Antennas are mounted to the exterior of customers' homes and businesses, and the antenna is wired to an inside router that transmits a signal to the user's computer. WiSpring offers broadband service via fixed, as opposed to mobile, wireless networks. 'We haven't done any advertising,' he said. The presentation, according to WiSpring CEO Crispin Tresp, will be a way to introduce his 18-month-old company to the chamber. Using Verizon's copper wire infrastructure as transport, Richmond Networx brings high-speed DSL to residential customers in Great Barrington, Lenox, Pittsfield and Richmond, and to commercial clients all over the county. Richmond Networx, a subsidiary of Richmond Telephone, serves commercial clients like Fairview Hospital and Bard College at Simon's Rock the seminar will be a way to familiarize people with 'what exists out there,' said John Dullaghan, the vice president of communications at Richmond Networx. '(Businesses) need to know there are alternatives, and there are things coming,' Killeen said. Of the nine towns in Southern Berkshire, only one - Great Barrington - has a consistent blanket of high-speed Internet service, and Brian Killeen, the chamber executive director, said the seminar will cover the available options.

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