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For a business, there's always choice. There's broadband via wireless. With enough investment, dedicated wires or point-to-point wireless could be run. It's ju
by gojomo 8y ago
For a business, there's always choice. There's broadband via wireless. With enough investment, dedicated wires or point-to-point wireless could be run.
It's just a matter of "not yet cheap enough". Well, if you let the price mechanism work, the juicy profits will attract other providers.
Almost no place in the world had "retail broadband" just 30 years ago. By the current ever-changing escalation of what "broadband" is, almost no place had it 20 years ago, either.
But profits in bringing it places where it didn't already exist has brought it almost everywhere. And with 2+ providers in most places.
Let prices float, and it'll keep expanding. Replace profit-seeking with price-caps and regulatory judgements, and it'll slow down, and be at the mercy of dumb sloganeering politics.
- alphabettsy 8y agoI’m not sure where you live and how it is in your area, but the majority of the country living outside a major metro has one choice for high-speed that isn’t DSL or LTE. This is also true for people renting or leasing in multi-unit buildings where the owner has chosen a provider. The last three places I lived had only one wired broadband provider.
- gojomo 8y agoDSL, LTE, and cable are 3 choices, and that's residential. Business districts often have other, higher-priced choices... and for businesses where high-speed is high-value, they can always pay more for a custom set-up. The "majority of the country" (by area) is only 20% of the population. 80% of the population lives in urban areas. At the 10Mbps downlink threshold – enough for 2-3 separate Netflix streams – over 90% of the country has at least 2 wired choices, and wireless also keeps improving.