I don’t understand the technical aspects of this and I agree that anything Obama has a hand in is guaranteed to be corrupt.
Whatever the reason, living here in rural America, I can say for certain that no one is making any real effort to supply us with broadband service. I have been waiting for it for maybe 10 years and still nothing in sight.
There are a couple of satellite services but I have checked on them and they are both expensive and deliver what must be awful service as they are rated one star out of five from the reviews I have read.
I keep reading of schemes to make it available such as supplying it through the electrical grid but nothing ever happens.
Meanwhile while nearly everyone I know has all the bells and whistles I sit at my desk waiting for just about every single website to take it’s time to load. Many things I simply cannot do or use.
i have Empire Telephone and have fiber to my house...I use Boost mobile, but still get spotty reception out here west of Ocala, FL. We live in a very rural area with only AT&T/Bellsouth as our phone/internet provider (no cable). We have their maximum DSL, 6.0 Extreme. A whole, whopping (up to) 6 meg DL and an incredible half meg upload speed!! Perfect for the average family with 3 PC’s, a laptop and a gaming console all trying to grab a slice of bandwidth! (/sarc). Others only a few miles away have a different ISP and get twice the BW at very little cost increase (about $5/month).