“As long as we are trying to help those who live in rural areas access to everything...”
Not, everything, just gigabit internet speeds, and in many case, non-dial up internet for the first time. Since in many of these rural areas lines are going to be burried for the first time, why not make them 5G compatible? There’s millions of children being raised in conservative families in our nation’s rural areas, many of them home schooled. Personally, I like the suggestions Pai has made. You can keep your Starbucks.
I am rural and actually could do everything I NEEDED on the internet at 56k dialup. High speed internet is necessary for smooth high definition video.Not needed for ordinary banking,etc.And my DSL internet at $19.95 wasn’t the strain on my budget that the $54.95 fiber optic is.With the installation of fiber in my rural area the plain old telephone services are gone,the copper abandoned.And if the electric goes out so does the phone .
I disagree that everyone needs to live on a superhighway be it real or virtual.