[Info-vax] US Broadband

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-03 20:52:14 +0000, Dirk Munk said:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>> Broadband is universally available within the US.  Affordable broadband 
>> is not.  If you can pay for it, you can get what you want and what you 
>> need.
>> 
> 
> Can you give some examples?

Examples of the sorts of folks who are very rich, and who can thus 
afford bespoke communications links out to their cozy little 
hundred-room cabin in East Overshoe Village, and where there are no 
incumbent cable, DSL or wireless providers in East Overshoe with 
sufficient bandwidth, or where there are no providers with any 
available service?  Outside of the population centers, limited 
bandwidth or no coverage is fairly common in the US, and US broadband 
is variously more expensive than broadband in other parts of the world. 
 This is part of why some of the local folks use high-latency 
satellite, and some use comparatively high-cost and usually data-capped 
cellular, where that's even available and stable.  As I'd commented, 
low-latency high-bandwidth broadband is generally widely available in 
the US, if you are sufficiently rich and can thus afford your own 
links.  Most folks cannot afford dedicated links.  I didn't think my 
earlier statement was particularly arcane, either.



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