In today’s constantly changing, on-demand world, the network still needs to scale for massive capacity growth. This Petition is to demand an upgrade from CenturyLink the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the Woods of Salado, Salado, Bell County, Texas, hereinafter referred to as "Woods."

The "Woods" residents are receiving approximately 10 Mbps, or less, of internet speeds, whereas CenturyLink advertises on their website we receive 30 Mbps. The price is the same as the majority of the residents of "Woods" are being charged for less than half of the bandwidth.

A new housing development less than two miles away from the "Woods" subdivision is receiving 40-45 Mbps and paying approximately the same price as the "Woods." 

Most of the residents of "Woods" have made numerous complaints over the years regarding the constant outage and slow services of our ISP. CenturyLink service technicians answer the service complaints, make a repair at the main box and maybe we are able to get 10 Mbps for a while, and then it goes down again. 

It is time for a change, networks have been historically built to operate in a static mode of operation, where change in connectivity patterns and new capacity requests translate into new hardware, along with lengthy, manual wavelength planning and deployment cycles.  The residents of "Woods" demand our services be upgraded to bandwidth of residents surrounding us!