PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03
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Re: That's nothing.
Very good point. I did not consider multiple users per household. In that case, penetration percentage IS higher than what I stated.
I still think it's ridiculously low, however, and I fail to understand why. I live in an extremely mountainous and rural area of Washington, and the WISP in our very large county covers over half the population. The only people it doesn't reach are the people who intentionally live in extremely remote areas in order to isolate themselves. If we can do that in this mountainous area, why not the rest of rural America?
And the Martin comment was simply to rant that he IS part of the problem, albiet only in the US. If I knew who or what was responsible for lack of broadband penetration in other countries, I'd bitch about them too! 
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
| said by PolarBear  :I still think it's ridiculously low, however, and I fail to understand why. I live in an extremely mountainous and rural area of Washington, and the WISP in our very large county covers over half the population. The only people it doesn't reach are the people who intentionally live in extremely remote areas in order to isolate themselves. If we can do that in this mountainous area, why not the rest of rural America? Those who use the excuse about how hard it is to provide rural broadband in such a large country never seem to mention that Alaska has one of the highest broadband penetration rates of the 50 states. |
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