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Can get?

You can get satellite service with 1 Mbps rates for $70 a month virtually anywhere in the country. Yes, there’s definite issues with satellite service but it does work.

Areas of the country that are relatively flat often have terrestrial based wireless Internet services and are significantly less expensive than satellite and perform better. When spectrum currently used for TV is freed up those services are likely to expand.

I've been on a terrestrial WISP for a few years now - it's the only broadband option here. I worked closely with the network owner, so I'm very familiar with the technology. It's certainly better than the analog dial-up service on 50-year-old copper lines, but it's not an economic panacea for the lack of affordable wireline broadband service.

Wireless should be good enough for mobile platforms, but even with the upcoming auction, there isn't enough spectrum available to compete against countries that are going with fibre.

Prior to getting wireless, I had 128-kbps ISDN. It cost thousands of dollars per year. The average consumer cannot afford that kind of money for such pitiful data rates.

I suspect that most of the folks who say our infrastructure is good enough already have reasonably good service. They suggest that anyone who wants a decent connection should move to the big city, or should commute 100-miles-per-day to a town with good connectivity for their jobs. I disagree with them.

I had a wireless connection like this in a Canadian Campground and it was great .......except when a train went by. The line of sight was so flat, a nearby elevated track interferred.