You hear more and more everyday from news articles published online to news stories ran in the evening news regarding how the major telecom and tech companies are expanding their fiber networks and that people that really need internet can now get it. But the one thing that ALL these companies are forgetting, are the little rural towns dotted around America where the only connections to the internet and the world are from monopolies like Centurylink, and Google, just to name a couple.
I have been calling Centurylink monthly just to see when they would be providing higher speed internet in the small town of 900 that I live in in North Central Missouri, and am told every single time, "Sorry, we just don't have plans to expand to that area with our high speed Fiber internet and it also depends on how far you are from the connection." Centurylink has a telecom depot just a few blocks from my house, but yet they are not going to offer anywhere near 1 Gbps speeds, because according to them, it's just not feasible. Google has told me the same exact thing. We have two internet providers, one is from Centurylink that unfortunately only offers 10 mbps down and 1 mbps up and US Cable, based out of Odessa, MO, almost two hours from me and they offer a whopping 20 mbps down and 3 mbps up. Think we are getting the screw around from these companies.
Google, I would expect to actually want to get this faster internet out to rural towns and cities just to give them something else besides from the controlling monopolies of the internet revolution.
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