On 03/23/2017 04:00 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

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They tend to get forgotten by the media, politicians, web designers ...
almost everyone, in fact )-:. (And it's not _entirely_ rural folk:
granted, it mostly is, but there are parts of towns [here in UK, and I'm
sure elsewhere too] that are "not-spots".)

I'm in a smaller town (about 14K population) and do have broadband now
(cable). I do remember the years when it was available only in the more
seriously overpopulated areas. I got tired of hearing people saying
"just get broadband".

BTW, the first broadband available here was Starband satellite (around
2001). It was only a little better than POTS, and became much worse and
then useless. I went back to the 48k dialup and that was a big improvement.

LTE is available here now, and possibly DSL from Frontier.

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Mark Lloyd
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