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In terms of cellular service: I have Verizon. It reaches just about everywhere out here. When we went camping with friends for our bachelor/bachelorette trip this summer, our friends were borrowing our phones to make calls, because AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint just don't cover rural Oregon the way Verizon does. Our friend with a Droid on Verizon was still able to look up stuff while we were bullshitting around the campfire.
Internet: I know a few people who live in rural Oregon, and have access to crappy Internet. Take my husband's grandparents. They live in a pretty rural area and can only get a dial-up connection. Would they like to have broadband? You bet. Grandma would love to be able to Facebook with her grandkids and look at pictures of her great-grandkids online. She'd love to be able to post pictures online. But she can't. The last time we were down there, my husband tried to get online to show her some pictures, but it was like being on the Internet circa 1996.
I think we could do a much better job of supporting infrastructure to bring broadband to more people, but it's hard to dictate that to companies, y'know--they're going to do what's best for their bottom line.
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