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My aunt's town in rural Western Massachusetts still only has broadband in the library plus scanty LTE service and current terrible satellite— how and whether to
by akgerber 9y ago
My aunt's town in rural Western Massachusetts still only has broadband in the library plus scanty LTE service and current terrible satellite— how and whether to wire the town with broadband is driving the first contested election in decades.
This could make a major difference for that type of rural town.
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoI'm in central Kansas. The options here are basically satellite or if you are close to town, then up to 6Mbps DSL. We have DSL, but most of our friends/neighbors can't get it...
- mobilefriendly 9y agoSame situation for our mid-Atlantic home. There's a ton of pent up demand for this service in all of the rural and semi-rural pockets of the U.S. We have been very poorly served by Congress, state, and local government.
- ams6110 9y ago> We have been very poorly served by Congress, state, and local government I live in a semi-rural area. I chose to live there. Why should everyone else pay to give me top-tier internet access? If high-speed internet access is important to me, I need to move to a neighborhood that has that amenity
- alasdair_ 9y ago>I live in a semi-rural area. I chose to live there. Why should everyone else pay to give me top-tier internet access? One could as why everyone else should have to pay to give you postal service at the same price as someone in, say, NYC when the cost of provision is much higher. The reason the person above you mentioned government is that it's likely that government owns the streets that any net access would run through as well as having countless other regulations that would need to be followed.