Looking at the map, the amount of area they seem to be willing to spend money on, in say, western and northern Alaska is scary.
1 posted on
02/10/2012 4:50:55 PM PST by
matt04
To: matt04
Large areas are not covered by people either.
Nearly $70M of Porkulus here to bring broadband to cornfields, pastures, and cow barns
2 posted on
02/10/2012 4:52:55 PM PST by
bigbob
To: matt04
HORRORS! Give 'em one of these:
3 posted on
02/10/2012 4:53:46 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
To: matt04
Oh no! I cant use my FR app in the river bottom?
Horrors!
4 posted on
02/10/2012 4:55:25 PM PST by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: matt04
Get the areas not covered filled in and the freeloaders will be demanding FREE “smart” phones. That’s gonna cost us.
6 posted on
02/10/2012 4:56:23 PM PST by
FlingWingFlyer
(FOX News! In the barrel for Barry!)
To: matt04
You know what slays me?
People that think they have a right to GPS in the Himalayas!
Can any one read a map or calculate magnetic declination anymore?
If you cant you probably shouldn’t be out there to begin with.
8 posted on
02/10/2012 5:00:34 PM PST by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: matt04
"...millions of Americans still live, work, and travel in areas where advanced mobile networks have not been built out,”And I'm one of them. Which is why I try and stress the importance of not relying on cell phones when tourists visit the backcountry here. My cell phone barely works in my office here.
9 posted on
02/10/2012 5:04:25 PM PST by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: matt04
By the time they get 3G to all those blackout spots (uninhabited mountainous areas, mostly), everyone else will be using some new satellite system, and cell towers will be extinct.
10 posted on
02/10/2012 5:04:32 PM PST by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
To: matt04
How did the pioneers ever manage without broadband coverage?
11 posted on
02/10/2012 5:07:26 PM PST by
Larry Lucido
(My doctor told me to curtail my Walpoling activities.)
To: matt04
Some of my favorite places..
12 posted on
02/10/2012 5:07:55 PM PST by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: matt04
Doesn’t this mean these are places they can’t so easily track you, either. I suspect a push for coverage has nothing to do with providing service to individuals.
To: matt04
On the one hand, they use Agenda 21 to end private property and drive all non-ruling class peasants into inner-city housing projects, and on the other hand they want to cover the entire country with free wifi.
It seems like all they are really after is government cash.
18 posted on
02/10/2012 6:48:20 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
To: matt04
Looking at the South Dakota counties supposedly “under served” most do not have enough population to make any sense of providing service. In one of these counties a few years ago a half mile wide tornado was observed on the ground for more than 25 minutes and NO damage was reported.
23 posted on
02/10/2012 7:39:22 PM PST by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
To: matt04
This is ridiculous. Ten years ago nobody cared about such a thing. Now it’s a safe way to spend lots of money that we don’t have. Talk about misplaced priorities.
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