Author:
Arthur Keith
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Date Posted: 20:13:32 07/28/13 Sun
But yet, here in the Deep South, according to the US Census one of the poorest areas of the country, we have cell towers all over the place. It helps, of course, since most people carry Obama phones, you know, those free phones that the rest of us pay for.
Anyway, you can get high speed internet through those phones. Strange, people cannot afford to get their own phones but they can afford to have computers and internet access.
>>And here I thought that we were the most backward part
>>of the US.
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>>In the upper midwest and western US, outside of major
>>>cities and major highways, it is common to not have
>>>cellphone access let alone cable or DSL.
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>Rural service is bad where I live, too. My "high
>speed" connection is a wireless setup that is slower
>than somewhat at the best of times, and often doesn't
>work at all. That is why I keep a dial-up account and
>have to use it perhaps once a week to send an e-mail
>or a download to a customer. Fortunately I have a good
>cable connection at my work office so I wind up doing
>a lot of my Spearfish Lake Tales business from there.
>It is not easy to run an internet business with crappy
>internet service. If I had better and more reliable
>service from home I might do a few things differently.
>However, there doesn't seem to be the possibility of
>it happening any time soon.
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>-- Wes
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