re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

2/3 of the nation has no cell service coverage (by area). They can request all they want. They will still be refused.

Also “the telephone of last resort” means your telephone still works when your power is out for three weeks (provided the lines weren’t destroyed).

Yesterday someone came in the library saying they’d just talked to a guy running a frightfully-expensive drone over the cell tower behind the general store which only covers US-26, to try to figure out why it wasn’t working.

Apparently today it’s still not working. Viero might get around someday to fixing a cell tower in an extremely rural area.

Wasn’t there some sort of “broadband initiative” included in Biden’s infrastructure bill to try to improve the communications systems in the rural US?
Not sure why - outside, seemingly, of a general aversion to government spending* - but most Republicans seem to be of the opinion that even something as basic as cell service, never mind fast Internet connections, is some sort of luxury or frippery undeserving of public support.