Obama win means broadband expansion

I am curious as to how rural he realizes that some sections of the US are, as well as how impoverished they are? It has only been in the last two years sections of SD have gotten dial up without paying long distance charges, and in an area in which only 6% of people have computers n the first place. I think he need to think smaller. Find these people jobs and, more importantly, food before they get high speed internet access.

There are plenty of "rural" areas that have lots of people with computers but no high-speed access. This campaign promise will actually be easy to keep given the FCCs decision on whitespace devices for the old TV bands. A single device for an ISP may cover a 50 mile radius and is much easier and cheaper to install than cable or DSL equipment (for the ISP).

As far as finding jobs, I found my lasat several jobs online. Where I lived in the mountains, most people have computers. But only dial-up is available.

>>I am curious as to how rural he realizes that some sections of the US are, as well as how impoverished they are?

Can these same rural, impoverished sections of the US get analog television signals? If so, they will hopefully be able to embrace new wireless technology based upon sending and receiving data via this soon-to-be unused spectrum.

I had not thought of the new unused spectrum. Perhaps this will be a very useful tool. Still, I expect some resistance, and cannot expect it to be a free service. I always hope for community organization to step up and use their budgets to supply computers with internet access. There is a major technological divide between the poor and the rich when it comes to computers. However, with cell-phone and the growing popularity and lowing prices of smart phones, we could possibly see a bridge between the connected and the impoverished.