There is a local company here in Salt Lake city that provides most area's with 15mb connections for a decent price. However, these connections are only available in certain area's, and these areas just so happen to be area's where the city "agreed" to pay for installation of boxes, cables, etc... The cities where they did not agree, cannot get access to this type of broadband internet as its just too expensive for the company to pay for all that itself.
So where i see the problem is lack of support from the right people. If cities would help these companies out, and give the people what they wanted, wouldn't we all have a reasonably fast internet connection by now?
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There is a local company here in Salt Lake city that provides most area's with 15mb connections for a decent price. However, these connections are only available in certain area's, and these areas just so happen to be area's where the city "agreed" to pay for installation of boxes, cables, etc... The cities where they did not agree, cannot get access to this type of broadband internet as its just too expensive for the company to pay for all that itself.
So where i see the problem is lack of support from the right people. If cities would help these companies out, and give the people what they wanted, wouldn't we all have a reasonably fast internet connection by now?