| Rural "utilities" Im stuck with 56k. My biggest complaint is always on connectivity. I would love to have more speed, but really just the ability to stay online (and actually connecting above 28k) would do it for me.
I would also like to point out that most rural folk do not have city water. We had to pay for the well, pump, lines, septic tank. Just because something is a utility does not gurantee its availability for everyone. People seem to think that by branding broadband a "utility" it will somehow magically appear for all. The problem with not forcing the hand of the phone/cable companies to wire rural areas (which are certainly no great investment) is they will NEVER do it if not prodded in some way. I dont want or expect a free ride, but short of the govt forcing verizon to wire our street we will never see any form of broadband. |
