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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. |
