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...
I have had a business for 35 years, a website for 13 years, all my big wholesale orders and all my retail orders come via email. We did fine on dial-up until my husband bought a laptop. He fumed whenever I, on the main machine, downloaded anything with graphics, because it slowed him down.
We have been bombarded by bundling offers/DSL offers for years. Finally, after realizing that we could get rid of the fax & its extra line, since we rarely use it anymore, we got DSL. We pay about the same for all business communication services, did not bundle, and have less marital strife over who is downloading what and when. True Broadband is not possible yet down in our valley, but then, only some cell service providers work down here. We either have to walk about 50 yards up the back hill or be on the second floor and have the right service provider to get enough bars.
I like the faster service, we can always hook up the fax if we need to send something or use a web-based email-to-fax program. These whiners need to simply call their phone company. I am much more rural than they are, live in Wisconsin and all it took was one visit to the phone company, less than a half-hour for setting up the new modem and my bill is the same as with dial-up.