| 28%?? I'll bet that figure is a LOT higher than 28%.
What a lot of small mom-and-pop WISPs face is red tape. In my case, Great Lakes High Speed has a new antenna ready to go "any moment now," but Jason is being held up by the bureaucracy. Because there's no public land available (it's all state recreational or privately owned), he's dependent on individual landowners to allow the placement of small towers. The landowners are willing and more than happy to help because +75% of the township desperately would like to dump satellite, but TPTB at the government office don't know how to zone it. Jason is getting a three-legged runaround that he *hopes* to have resolved...you guessed it..."any day now."
In the meantime, Frontier is still planning to bring DSL. I got a mailing offering $14.99 for 1Mb down combined with phone, but it's not available yet and deployment is scheduled in September.
And I'm not even really rural. |
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Cheyenne, WY
2 edits | There are whole areas in Wyoming and Nebraska where there are people who would sell kidneys for a 3 Mbps connection. I know ranchers in Nebraska that are lucky to have a 14.4 k baud connection, and as bad as it is a satellite system with all of its cost and caps is better.
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
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