@morbiuswilters said:
Even way out you can still get EVDO or the like from cell providers, which is pretty reasonable.
No, you really can't. Cell phone coverage is slightly better than broadband coverage, but there are huge expanses of land with no cell phone coverage. You may need to do more traveling. Most areas are not nearly as densely populated as the east coast.
Even though those areas are less densely populated, they still contain millions of people with no broadband options.
@morbiuswilters said:
The majority of Americans live within an area that has at least 1 cable and 1 DSL provider.
I don't usually like to use this as a comeback, but: citation needed.
Go around the country some more. Cable and DSL is common within cities and uncommon outside of cities.
@morbiuswilters said:
If you choose to live in the middle of nowhere you have to accept that nobody is going to want to waste the money providing you with Internet. It's not a charity, after all.
Um ... duh? Did you pay attention to what started this thread?
The whole point is that people outside of cities have accepted that Verizon won't build the infrastructure and we're willing to pay for its construction and support ourselves.
@morbiuswilters said:
@VGR said:
But Verizon will never bring it here, ever. That is outrageous, but we've accepted it.
How is that outrageous? If they don't want to bring FiOS to you it's because it is not worth the effort. Seems very reasonable to me.
Because they're not a private enterprise. They're the phone company. Just because everyone likes profit doesn't mean everyone has a right to it. If they want to become a true private enterprise and put up their own brand new communications network, that's fine. But this is something put up by the government as a national infrastructure, for the specific purpose of bringing the nation forward technologically.
And, oh yeah, Verizon was given 200 billion dollars to bring broadband to outlying areas.
@morbiuswilters said:
Filed under: Quit your whining.
Aren't you clever. I took a gamble that you might have grown up and might be able to hold a conversation without being an insulting prick; looks like I lost. Nevertheless, I bet if your broadband was terminated and someone told you that if you want broadband, you should move, you'd be the whiniest bitch history has ever seen.