beedubaya
join:2004-11-30
Arkansas
| Its sad that we are in the 21st century and so many Internet users are still dialing up at 56k or less, even if they have broadband available! Cable finally became available in my rural area last year, and like somebody else in this thread said, I doubted its actuality until the day of installation.
Its one thing to deploy broadband in rural areas, but its another to convince them the switch from dial-up is worth it. Most people who live in the country are not typically tech savvy people, and use the Internet for relatively few things, and find a dial-up connection sufficient for their needs. That I believe is another reason rural areas are often under-served. I'm not sure if this is factual, but I've heard poorer inner-city districs of major cities are still not wired for broadband either. If this is so, its another one of the situations I discribed above, its not the lack of people, but the lack of the kind of people who would want broadband. This IMO is discrimination, whether it be inner-city minorities or rural Americans. |
