said by slckusr:Keep the rural areas ignorant to counter the big city voters. Easy access to the internet provides more knowledge with knowledge comes enlightenment. Keeping folks in the dark furthers both platforms agendas.
Because rural people who make significantly less than urban people want to pay the same urban rates for equal or slower "LTE".
It's already happening too. The people who own the pipes are laying new fiber to mountaintops just to provide service for verizon or att and selling it has providing next gerneration broadband to rural users.
It's a load of overpriced and restricted crap.