If you think that $80 a month for a service with a 30 GB per month cap is "comparable to wireline" then your local wireline service must really, really suck.
Exede has a 25mb 150 GB cap for around $100 a month.
“If you think that $80 a month for a service with a 30 GB per month cap is “comparable to wireline” then your local wireline service must really, really suck.”
I haven’t looked into it in that detail because I don’t need it. Whether or not it’s competitive with wireline internet service or not is irrelevant. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that sparsely settled rural America should somehow get the same deal as places where a sufficient customer base exists to warrant the installation of a higher capacity system. Next you will be telling me that it doesn’t matter if you live by yourself on a mountain top miles from any significant population center, you should still “be given” cheap internet service. Bet you can’t get water, electricity, natural gas, and a sewer there for the same reasons that you won’t get the internet you thing you are owed.
Hubert Humphrey was a big proponent of giving rural America the same airline services as the big population centers, and charging the big city passengers extra on their tickets to pay for it. Is that what you think we should be doing? As part of this nonsense, there was an “airline” that flew between Ely and Las Vegas, NV. “Scheduled Air Service with a timetable wherein nearly every flight flew empty and we paid for it.