Sigh: I understand what you are saying, but then, the subject of the OA is communities that are excluded from some aspects of modern life by poor and expensive

Sigh: I understand what you are saying, but then, the subject of the OA is communities that are excluded from some aspects of modern life by poor and expensive Internet access. One inevitably starts to think about why someone needs a connection capable of downloading at scores of megabits per second to access information and take part in (the human style) local networking. I then contrast the loading speed of a page with Javascript on with the loading speed when Javascript is disabled... (I get 350 kbits/sec down here). Back on the subject: am I right in thinking that a lower bandwidth connection - say 2Mb/s - would be cheaper to provide in some way than a full city scale pipe, or is it simply the cost of providing any kind of connection involving digging trenches just so high?