If I'm not mistaken, most rural areas in the United States didn't have electrical power because it wasn't profitable for the power monopolies of the day to hook them up. The government then made it easy for local community-owned power companies to put up their own poles, buy power at government mandated low rates from the large power company, and sometimes have a government subsidy.
I want DSL access or cable internet access, but I live out in the country where neither are available. Does anyone on/. think that the system that gave my area power long ago could be re-created so that somebody would find it profitable (or even feasibe) to sell me broadband access?
Yeah, it's 2AM and this is my first post. I shoud cut back on the coffee...
Slashdot Mirror
People who use Internet Explorer (Like Me) are not about to admit to it in a poll...
.sig
Like the poll says, it's unscientific, and if you use it for anything, you're nuts.
I still need a better
If I'm not mistaken, most rural areas in the United States didn't have electrical power because it wasn't profitable for the power monopolies of the day to hook them up. The government then made it easy for local community-owned power companies to put up their own poles, buy power at government mandated low rates from the large power company, and sometimes have a government subsidy.
/. think that the system that gave my area power long ago could be re-created so that somebody would find it profitable (or even feasibe) to sell me broadband access?
I want DSL access or cable internet access, but I live out in the country where neither are available. Does anyone on
Yeah, it's 2AM and this is my first post. I shoud cut back on the coffee...