DoctorDoom
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Becket, MA
| Rural Massachusetts
In the Berkshires, where Becket (cited in the article) is located, there are large "rural" areas dues to the terrain. Where I live, 4 miles west of Becket center, there are two and only two choices: dialup at 28.8 Kbps max (usually slower) or satellite. Given that the Web is becoming inaccessible to dialup users—websites simply assume that everyone is on broadband—I switched to Hughes. It's not perfection, but it beats the phone lines.
Verizon at one time had a plan to extend broadband here, but abandoned the idea because FIOS in areas already saturated with broadband is more profitable.
I've seen this talk before, and I'm a skeptic. IMO, the likelihood of broadband in those 32 unserved towns is approximately equal to that of an invasion from Mars. |
