Yeesh.
And...will this money come with strings attached? You betcha!!
Doug and Marjorie King, who both run businesses out of their town of Perry home in southwestern Dane County, are frustrated that their phone provider hasn't offered high-speed Internet service in their area. The faster connection speed is vital for downloading large files and viewing many Web pages that feature videos and graphics.
Yet another example of “if there’s a market for it, it’ll happen”. Instead, we’re trying to spend my money on something they don’t seem overly interested in.
How about, the handful of people that HAVE TO HAVE IT OMG go sign up for satellite internet and quick whining.
In the rural area where we have a little ole ranch, our neighbors out there get both their cable television and high speed internet by satellite. It seems to work for them really well. They just installed a small satellite on their roof.
We ranch in Eastern New Mexico (nothing) & went with Wildblue.net. Sent us a satlite dish & got us hooked up so now we have high speed internet & still live 40 miles from anywhere. Check it out. Denco
Um....move?
Soon, this will become a “basic human right” and provided for by gubbermint.
this is nonsense.
When I lived in rural Oklahoma we got satellite internet coverage. It was a bit expensive back then, but the monthly charge was only fifty dollars a month. that is not bad for a business...
With the communications grid in place now most anyone should be able to get broadband who can also get cell service. At first I though this was going to be the way service was going to go. It still may do so especially when the Bells land cables begin to have aging issues. 5GB a month which is what cell companies offer is not realistic nor practical for the cost.
Satellite such as Hughesnet has too many issues also. I know of no satisfied customers. For one thing in rough terrain you have to be facing south to southwest. Where I live ridges and mountains NE by SW and I'm on the north slope with a high ridge as by backyard.
DSL could be used in rural areas if Bell would upgrade their equipment. I live half mile from Bells SLICK Cabinet. That means thankfully I do get a consistent 49-50K connect speed on dial-up.
There's room fro Hi-Tech in rural areas. My phone exchange was among the first in the nation to go to Electronic Switching. But Ma Bell still left the paper insulated cables that went out after most rains for nearly another decade.
There's money to be make even in rural areas for hi speed Internet service and there is a demand especially in an age where people work from their home and many companies locate there as well for tax purposes. I'll give you an example. We can't get TV from town. The towers are about 12-15 air miles away. So people in the community bought C-Band dishes. We had great TV from around the nation. The networks soon began making deals with big cable and many channels were cut off but small dish came to the rescue. OK fine less maintenance etc and no more delay while the thing hunts the bird. Then again in steps network and Big Cable saying you can't pick up distant big 3 networks due to protect markets. Call you local station and get a waiver. Local station managers were too busy to bother but finally the two Dish companies cut a deal and we got local networks.
About the time that was happening Comcast comes speeding up the main road to establish territory. The went just far enough to get the contract for the area but left many others waiting, and waiting, and still waiting, while their sales department bombards us with calls and flyer's offering service they will not provide.
One Comcast telemarketer at one point promised me cable and Internet in three days. It was an unsolicited call but I said OK the cable stops a half mile away from me. He insisted I would have service in three days. I said do it then. Three days later? Nothing. I called Comcast and they knew nothing about expanding in my area.
I don't expect government to pay for getting internet into rural areas but someone should see it as a market of opportunity. I live off the main road on a dead in road. About 7 homes on a road less than a quarter mile long. All of us would sign up to a reasonable service with reasonable allowed usage. Right now if the cell companies would re-think their strategy they could clean up in my area as the towers are in place.