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Rural Broadband – Sham Battle
by Andrew McCaskey
The Real Money is Elsewhere
Verizon pushed the publicity button and enrolled politiicans in Vermont, Montana and other sparsely populated areas, announcing the rollout of LTE 4G service to rural areas in 2010.
I have to be skeptical and suspect that a few rural areas are once again being used as a poster child when the cameras are rolling, while the real motivation is the “so called” rural areas that are in fact exurbs of major cities with lots of money making potential, middle class customers and a prime marketplace to do battle with cable competition for broadband. These incumbents are getting ready to pursue their current practice of neglecting and bypassing real areas of need in remote areas, Appalachia, the general “boonies” that need to be covered.
The use of 700 Mhz spectrum is going to improve coverage compared with higher frequency base stations. But one look at the coverage maps of 3G networks, or an attempt to access EVDO signals if you are off the major interstates should convince you that the carriers are not going to be doing any sort of buildout in areas that are not prime commercial potential.
If this investment of over $7 Billion of stimulus taxpayer money is not managed carefully, it’s going to be nothing more than a subsidy to the very incumbents that have been dragging their feet for the past 70 years, whatever the technology.
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