I just spent a week at a remote Alaska village 120 miles from Nome to help with the Iditarod. The villages there rely on rural broadband, which is essentially a

I just spent a week at a remote Alaska village 120 miles from Nome to help with the Iditarod. The villages there rely on rural broadband, which is essentially a single satellite-fed community receiver which pushes signal out to access points at each house. Very expensive, slow, high latency, and nasty data caps. It will be interesting to see how these efforts change that monopoly and as a result those communities.