true very true alot of rural areas in this country does not still have any internet or is sometime slow enough you cannot do anything with us where we live we only have two choices for internet frontier and mediacom if you get closer to the chicago area you get comcast and other choices to choose from.
It would be nice if AT&T or Verizon did build out a 4G/5G network that really covered the whole USA and was fast, reasonably priced, and had very high or unlimited data caps. "If" that ever happened, then, streaming/OTT/On-Demand would prevail and there would be little or no need for DBS as we know it now.
You sound like someone back in the 1800's who had no electricity or Telco service..broadband will be subsidized and available to everyone
Why ofcourse!@@!...High speed Internet is going to be common for a number of different reasons...as far as satellites..2 party phone lines are still around..so yes they are here for our lifetime
Too bad not enough people believe that. There really is a limit to what is practically necessary. People talk about how many computers they have in their house, smartphones, tablets, TVs and similar with Netflix but no one is pulling a large amount of bandwidth 24/7 like they think they do. We switched from 15 Mb/s to 50 Mb/s and no one in the house noticed.
Where I live, electricity wasn't available until 1949, I remember my grandfather saying. They started forming the electric coop in the early 40's, but the war broke out, and of course, all supplies and manpower were dedicated to it, so it was a few years after the war when they finally got electric service to the rural areas around here, unless you lived in "town." I think that telephone came around before electricity did. They've been saying that BS about a REA for broadband for years now, it ain't gonna happen. CenturyLink (the piece of $hit company that is the only provider for me) got over $500,000,000 from the government (CAF II) to "expand" broadband to rural areas, they do nothing but get the bare minimum service to you, and then oversell it and starve it for bandwidth to where it hardly works at peak times. That's why I have HughesNet as a backup to just be able to "surf" the internet in the evenings.
While I have never used a high speed service like that, I have always thought that over a certain level of speed, it is all just "marketing" for most content. Sounds like that is correct from what your saying.
I'd love to be able to get your "drop down" speed of 6Mbps
and how would that work, exactly? geostationary orbits are at a specific altitude (26K miles, IIRC) and only at the equator. Any low-orbit satellites would circle the globe faster than the rotation of the earth and not remain within the confines of the US. There would have to be thousands of satellites in orbit to ensure complete coverage over the US at any given time.
