fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to Ahrenl
Re: "Because we can't even agree there's a problem" That map, although interesting, doesn't speak much for broadband deployment.
Take two states, called the midwest,...Minnesota and Iowa.. (And some people still call Ohio the "midwest" when they are more eastern than anything) but Minnesota and Iowa... both of those states have broadband in places most people wouldn't think broadband exists. Iowa, for being mostly farm land, actually has some pretty good rural coverage. As for Minneosta, many of the smaller areas have broadband too..
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Well the question was "what is the farthest distance in the continental United States from a metropolitan statistical area." So I was simply answering that. The map doesn't take into account infrastructure at all. Hell I bet they have GREAT service in Aspen Colorado. |
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 ThalerPremium
join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
kudos:3 | reply to fiberguy
YMMV though.
I have relatives in Louisiana that *just* got broadband made avaliable to them. |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by Thaler:I have relatives in Louisiana that *just* got broadband made avaliable to them. Wow! And this happened without a "national broadband policy" too!
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ThalerPremium
join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
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1 edit | said by pnh102:Wow! And this happened without a "national broadband policy" too! For the are they were living in, the access to broadband could've been avaliable much sooner. Hell, old age is a way to die, but I wouldn't call Castro dying in a retirement home much of a successful assasination plot either.
I still have relatives and friends in locations that aren't the boonies, yet still have nothing but possibly a satellite offering. And no, I still won't consider satellite an honest broadband solution. 2-4x the cost for half the service of a traditional broadband provider isn't exactly "broadband covered".
We could certainly wait until 2050, 2100, etc. to roll on out until 256k coverage is avaliable everywhere in the US...but by then the slow "industry motivated" wiring movement would be waaay behind and nigh-useless for folks needs either. Perhaps having government wire the nation much like telephones isn't *the* solution, but the "we'll get to it whenever" moving force of broadband providers today isn't exactly utopia either. |
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