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People still live in the countryside. Rural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness. If your aim is to provide broadband to all, you'll have to build there to
by amazon2 10y ago
People still live in the countryside. Rural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness.
If your aim is to provide broadband to all, you'll have to build there too. Sweden aims to do 100 Mbps to 90% of the population by 2020. Can't do that by just covering urban areas.
- refurb 10y agoRural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness Try driving through Wyoming some time (on a highway!). You can easy drive for an hour or two and there is nothing but BLM (gov't) land all around you. No one lives there.
- WillPostForFood 10y agoApparently you can get to 86% by just covering urban areas. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS