The telephone service is good, but we rarely use t...

The telephone service is good, but we rarely use the landline. "Fiber optic" internet service: pretty awful. Plan on outages lasting from several minutes to several hours several times per week. If they werent the only game in town, I'd consider other options.

Edit: Two weeks later, another outage. We recently discontinued dish network service, foolishly assuming we could get by with streaming alternatives like hulu and netflix. No such luck. Our internet service, even with fiber optic, is too sporadic and unreliable. Again, if there were other options out here for internet service, I have trouble imagining a scenario in which Direct Communications would get another dime from me.