US internet speed: is not making significant progress in making it faster

[Moongoddess256]

nordlead said:
Barack has a stupid goal to put broadband in "every home". If he really means that we will be paying thousands for people living out in the boonies to have essentially a luxury item. I can understand concern about phone, electrical, road, or water infrastructure, but broadband internet is purely a luxury item for average home consumers. To top it off, a lot consumers don't even need broadband as all they do is surf the web and don't even bother to use online video. If it wasn't for the fact that I use Vonage and online TV I would drop broadband right away.

Considering the sheer size of the US, I don't see why people like to compare our infrastructure to much smaller countries that can more easily install new lines across the entire country. I mean should we really be shocked that Alaska has a horrible broadband infrastructure?

 

Booooooo! you try being an internet nerd trapped in the boonies. It sucks. No options for half decent internet. We get satellite internet. Its TERRIBLE. And it costs $70 a month. We are only allowed 300 something megabytes a day download total.

I would LOVE to be saved from this terrible internet situation.

And the internet is becoming as essential to communication as the phone. Ive noticed lately that the friends of mine who do not use the internet frequently never get invited to parties. I'll run into them later and they'd feel depressed because no one invited them... because everyone communicates through the internet. While that has nothing to do with broadband, it does show that the phone is slowly becoming obsolete.