That would basically mean that any government internal IT project would have to be able to work usable on dialup. Government IT contracting is already enough of a disaster.
No, it means they would have to actually care about broadband competition in US and about abuses from the local monopolies, in order to get faster Internet.
>No, it means they would have to actually care about broadband competition in US and about abuses from the local monopolies, in order to get faster Internet
No, it means they'll care even less because they'll be relegated to satellite only rural bullshit internet that has insanity latency, etc.
They will not experience anything relating to Comcast/cable/DSL/telcos in any significant way because the truly out there rural places in the country have far worse connections than a comcast monopoly.
Yep. My parents live a half hour outside Wilmington, NC, and they can't even get Hughes (satellite Internet). They currently pay $90/mo for 2gb of Verizon wireless data. Their only other choice is DirecTV's offering, which is priced similarly and also metered.
On the other hand, my brother in Wilmington has Time Warner, and I can't even SSH out, at least with whatever default setup they hooked him up with.
