- Apr 6, 2014
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Is this a map of what quality internet connections are available?
Or is it a map of what quality internet connections people are willing to pay for?
(BTW, companies aren't likely to build high-speed systems in areas where no one wants to pay for them.)
And areas with very sparse population might have to pay high per-person costs for running super-speed internet out to three farms that are fifty miles from the nearest town.
If you're so sad over Montana having slow internet, why don't YOU write the check to pay for their upgrades?
They have decided they can get along fine with slower internet, that their money is better spent on food or roads or heating oil or whatever. What makes you think you know better than they do, what they should spend their money on?
Are you telling me this has to do with culture? They would rather be outdoors than play video games or watch HBO?
First off, WE HAVE ALL PAID THE FEES, going on 3 decades for me, for all of our utility bills so that this money would be spent by these utility companies to spread their services to regions of the USA that are sparsely populated.... they've gotten the money from us, from all of us....for decades to add these services to areas with fewer people.... my town still has 2000 people that live here...granted it is spread out, but my 3 mile long road probably has 25 homes.... right in town center, many homes are grouped together much closer than us, and like I said, we are near US1? Maybe Congress is collecting these taxes but has never given them back to the Utility companies???
Playing outside is what the kids do here... in winter, they ski and sled and toboggan, make snowmen, play ice hockey and ice fish on the lakes, in the Fall they hunt, in the spring they drain the fluid from Maple trees and make maple syrup.
Perhaps when these kids grow up they will get introduced to video games and HBO and as a result call for faster internet speeds.