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This article is interesting as a lesson, and resonates with the ways I learned about computers and technology in a rural area. But something else is happening
by strict9 4y ago
This article is interesting as a lesson, and resonates with the ways I learned about computers and technology in a rural area.
But something else is happening now which is also interesting: rural broadband. As a result of actions taken by President Obama many years ago--according to my family at least--the area where I grew up will be getting broadband internet very soon.
This particular remote area will likely never get mapped on Google Street View, but people who live there will soon be able to watch netflix and do other things we often take for granted online.
- ghaff 4y agoWhere Starlink is available that helps a lot too. My brother has it up on coastal Maine and I could definitely work up there now--as well as stream videos. That certainly wasn't possible on the old 1Mbps down (on a good day) ADSL that used to be there. AT&T cell is marginal at best too although Verizon is a little better.
- lawrenceyan 4y agoWhat area? I think you'd be surprised to see what areas are imaged on Google Maps (more than you'd expect).
- bombcar 4y agoI think they mean the little camera car street view. Around here that means anything that’s not the literal main streets, and we’re not even far from the real world.
- walrus01 4y agoincumbent regional ISPs (primarily the historical local phone company and whoever built the first cable TV franchise starting from the 1980s) serving rural areas could do a whole lot more if they didn't waste or outright commit fraud with RDOF, RDOF2, USF, BTOP and other federal subsidy broadband construction funds. It's a travesty that there are some places that are not very rural at all in the US48 states where the best possible option is a starlink terminal right now. Something like starlink should be used for the REALLY remote and hard to reach places.