On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Jim Brain <br...@jbrain.com> wrote: > > We were spoiled in South Dakota, as somehow (and I am sure someone knows > and will enlighten us/me) the rural telcos (LECs?) tapped into lots of > funds from somewhere to drop fiber to all of the rural homes. 50Mb was the > slowest speed, as I recall, for data. The catch was that you had to buy a > telephone service with your Internet, probably for some legal/regulatory > reason. But, it was cheap, and we bought just the basics, and 50Mb was > more than one could expect when you are 8 miles from the nearest town and > on a large acreage. So, in markets where this type of service is offered, > I think telcos will thrive. >
Probably the FCC's Connect America Fund. This is meant to do for broadband what the REA did for electrical power.
