On 8/18/2012 8:18 PM, Evan wrote:
On Aug 18, 3:29 pm, "
wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:18:06 -0700 (PDT), Evan
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On Aug 18, 11:14 am, Metspitzer wrote:
I sure would have to think hard about moving to an area without
broadband. We have relatives that just bought a house a year ago and
they are forced to use Hughes satellite. We call that area dial up
country.

Umm... An "area without broadband" is one which
is too far away from the population center where
the central facilities for various services are located...

The cable or phone company is not going to string
10 miles of cables to serve two houses, if those
homes really want the services they have to pay
to build them out from the closest network access
point to the premises they wish to be connected...

It is just like getting electrical service to a remote
location.

The cost is what makes an area devoid of broadband.....

No, ****? I'm sure no one here knew any of that. Thank you for enlightening
us, Evan.

Most of the replies were bitching about
satellite internet as if there were zero
other options besides dial--up connections...

That is clearly not factual and has been
for some time now, customers are just
unwilling to pay to build out the networks
to where they can be connected -- so it
is all about the money...

A friend moved out to a rural area and the power company wanted around
$30k to extend the power lines and they paid that because they don't
want neighbors. But yet they keep on insisting the cable company is
rotten because they won't build out to their property for free.