Darwin, the town trapped by dial-up internet
BBC News
2 April 2012 Last updated at 19:50 ET
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17569954
Just to the west of California's Death Valley, residents of Darwin have
been trying to get connected to the broadband internet age.
For some of the 35 residents in town, loading a regular web page at
28kb/s can take several minutes and is not always guaranteed to work out.
While others were able to upgrade to a government-funded satellite
system that is much faster, it comes with strict data limits per day
which make video streaming nearly impossible.
"We are not saying we want to be given anything," says resident Kathy
Goss. "We found our own potential solutions and we are willing to pay
what it takes to get the hardware installed."
Ms Goss and others hope that a fiber optic cable meant to be installed
along a nearby highway will give residents a chance to tap in.
More than 100 million US residents, mostly living in rural areas, lack
high-speed internet service, according to the US Department of Commerce
<http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/12/30/look-ahead-2012-ntia-numbers>.
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