The US really needs a universal service fee to bring broadband to everyone.
Why is that? If you live too far outside of town to get broadband thats the compromise you made when you chose to live where you did, no one else else needs to pay to give you a service you choose to live without.
Substitute telephone for broadband and 1934 for 2011.
We live in an information driven age and not everyone
chooses to live in a rural or under populated area. You either grew up there or living in an urban area is out of your financial reach.
Broadband allows anyone to reach out to the world regardless of where you're located. It can, and does, bring jobs to areas whose historical industries don't exist anymore. The city of The Dalles was founded due to its favourable location on the Columbia for shipping fur pelts back East. Today, the fur trade is long gone and Google has a data center there.
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