Resources? There are resources, clearly, if billions have been given to companies that have not done what they were supposed to do. The problem is CORRUPTION!!!
Eisenhower’s Federal Highway act literally paved the way for the transportation business over 50 years ago. We need a leader who understands the relationship between economic growth and a robust infrastructure. It’s time for a Federal data highway program.
The sad part is the federal government has already given tens of billions of dollars to ISPs specifically for rural broadband. They took the money and ran.
@@PsRohrbaugh thats because we never attached strings. Like the NASA commercial Cargo and Crew programs, the companies involved have to have results to get more cash. No results, no money. We should do this for all government funded programs that use private companies, Make em show results or the next batch of funding doesnt unlock.
Vietnam has almost 90% 3- cell coverage, about 70% 4G coverage. Most of SaiGon has fibre optic service; I have a summer cottage 70 kilometres from the nearest town but I have fibre optic service. Fibre service is available in all towns and in sparsely populated areas have radio-based or satellite Internet.
This lack of access is based on the cost of building out the service (duh), so since internet is now a necessity for the efficient delivery of information and services (such as tele-medicine and even shopping online), then we must treat the internet like we did electricity (e.g. Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933). Even if you can access the internet though, the monthly cost for many people in the US is a burden.
@@ankitbiswal710 no I can't....I live 40 minutes from tier 2 city and 200 metres from a state highway....still I can't get even a DSL connection, forget Fibre.
Unbelievable in the United States, greed rules. There is a duopoly in my area, ATT or Comcast, and they are both operate using unethical business tactics which include shady contracts, lying CSR, unresponsive service, unreliable, inconsistent broadband power. I only get 6mbps and a lot of the time I only get around 4 with ATT. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING???
I live in Austin TX, and I'm terribly ashamed that the school district had to send out school buses with portable hotspots. I appreciate that the school district came up with a temporary solution, but I'm disturbed that they have to. This city is being managed in an awful way. Like the segment said, we are a high tech city. No one should be without access to the internet, for any reason.
@@ephoenix7 Not all neighborhoods have access to Google Fiber, especially apartment complexes. My apartment is in a fairly higher income area, yet I still can't get GF. Now imagine the apartments in lower income areas...not to mention GF is $70/mo.
Why doesn't a company like Comcast (19th most profitable and 28th largest company, according to the Fortune magazine I recently received) use some of their profits to fix some of this.......oh wait the profits have to go to the stockholders! Where is all of the tax and fees money generated by the 3rd most expensive internet in the world going?
And I complain because my Broadband is only 4.8 Mbps @ £16.99 a month. Though there are rural areas 25 miles from me that have no internet at all as they have no landline phone service and mobile service is spotty, some villages have taken matters into their own hands and laid their own fibre optic cable to the nearest landline cabinet partly funded by a government grant.
Not only should broadband be a public utility. But there should be a tax credit for those of us purchasing data for K-12 public school access. Tax credits already exists for high educational purposes.
My ailing mom needs my help at times but I can't work when from her home bc she has no internet. When I left for college I assumed it would come, but I'm 43 & she's still waiting. It's a nightmare.
One issue they did not address was property values. I purchased my rural home over 20 years ago, I only had dial up but the internet was not such a big deal and homes sold without an issue. I couple of years ago I noticed many home which were very nice had been abandoned. I talked to the people at the town hall and they said it was because we did not have high speed people could not sell their homes, some just walked away. My town is only 6 miles from three universities with over 28,000 thousand student. Last year we got high speed and all those abandoned homes are now sold. In todays world trying to sell a home without high speed is like trying to sell a home without electricity 50 years ago. Loving my internet and happy to know I will be able to sell my home if I ever want to.
Exactly! Besides it'll be way easier to lay those lines(cables) in rural or small town areas because of less congestion! Instead of sectioning off streets and highways in major cities for weeks or months on end causing unnecessary disruption
Yes the internet is the potential great equalizer. Knowledge is power. The access to it somewhat balances those with and withouts in terms of education.
@@jgaffney567 Indeed. They're excuse is "cost." Yet, every residence has had a landline phone installed. The infrastructure is there! All that's need is to follow those lines. The cost really wouldn't be much more.
@@Ron-iy2ez They now are doing their upmost to do away with landbased lines. They say maintenance is too costly. They are find excuses no matter what The most important thing to them is profit and shareholders. The will spend big to influence politics when they could do the right thing instead. The cost to influence is ok to make the world a better place less so. Besides they can make ads that will convince people that instead of doing it. That is also money better spent. The illusion is enough.
America continues to disappoint especially when it comes to the have nots. Everyone no matter where you live should have Internet. The FCC is a joke, they take your money for those who have Internet and that fee is huge and it goes up every year. Sad 😞
The first thing I thought of was Sam Kinison screaming "You need to live where the food is!" But this isn't funny. I did not know there was actually places like this in the USA... Get these people connected! The internet is the original "New Normal"!
I mean ofc internet in America is bad especially in communities not considered either a large city, too poor or anything else when you have business men running the govt instead of those concerned with the public. Up until recently I lived in a rapidly growing town but I don't think we ever got faster than 25-50mbps in my neighborhood (which knowing my luck has now changed there). Now we're capped at 25 and stuck between Windstream and satellite(where the latter has caps). Which as someone who games and tries to have some form of online life neither option is favorable. It's unreliable at worst and slow at best(especially considering things that have to be downloaded aren't getting any smaller). The same with minimum wages and even education funding. Nothing has kept with the times in the US for nearly 2 decades. We have some of the biggest tech brands in the world, but everything hasn't kept pace for us to use things they or other companies around the world make unless you happen to be rich and live in a major city. Otherwise the US gives everyone the middle finger on ensuring everyone has the tools they need to succeed
In the u.s. the people are working for the politicians and doctors, and the politicians and the doctors don't even care if the citizens have a job or not. They're busy making things very difficult and stressful for the people of the u.s. every day.
I live in a rural area that does not have any internet options. I have called spectrum many times to ask them why they can’t come down our road and they say that our house is in an “inaccessible location”. They ran underground fiber less than a mile from our house, yet they still determine our house as inaccessible. Absolutely ridiculous. I’ve had to deal with LTE data resellers off of eBay to get decent internet through the nearest cell tower, and that is in no way a fast, reliable, and inexpensive form of connection.
CBS hasn’t hit the nail. Broadband competition is limited in the U.S.A. and at least 80% of Americans are victims of either a monopoly (no choice) or a duopoly (only one choice) for fixed service. It is worse in rural America, where monopoly is even more prevalent. “The impact is obvious: higher prices, lower quality and/or slowed innovation limiting the ability of people to participate fully in society and the economy,” said Jonathan Sallet of Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. www.benton.org/sites/default/files/benton_competition.pdf According to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, “90 percent of the cost of deploying broadband is when the work requires significant excavation of the roadway.” Whereas the installation of duct increases overall costs of a highway construction project merely by 1.5% or more in the U.S.A. It has been fueling the demand for a “Dig Once” law that would mandate the nationwide installation of ducts during roadway construction and upgrades. A study shows that the “Dig Once” legislation could have saved the US$126 billion in broadband deployment costs,” said www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywaz3y/this-simple-law-could-have-saved-the-us-dollar126-billion-in-broadband-deployment-costs The U.S. House of Representatives members Anna G. Eshoo and David B. McKinley have tabled the “Nationwide Dig Once Act of 2020” and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has passed this bipartisan legislation with a vote of 233-188 on June 19, 2020. Despite compelling evidences of “Dig Once” policy’s outcomes, the “Nationwide Dig Once Act of 2020” is unlikely to become a law due to the incumbents’ covert and overt resistance.
This is a common problem that needs to be fixed yesterday. The whole world is online, without access to the Internet people are at a huge disadvantage that is not fair and very un-American. The FCC needs to pull their heads out of their butts.
That's already the case for internet services. The reason rural areas have terrible internet options is because laying and maintaining miles of fiberoptic cables is expensive and doesn't give enough return on investment in rural areas for private companies to care about areas that are sparsely populated instead of just continuing to focus on denser areas where each foot of cable brings you close to far more potential customers. They'd have to charge more than almost any customer in a rural area could actually afford. It's the same reason why the only mail delivery in many rural areas is by USPS (UPS and FedEx won't deliver everywhere) and rural phone service and electricity had to be subsidized by the government. Private companies just don't see it as worth it.
at this point in time, the internet should be treated as any other 'utility' service: just like electricity or telephone. *why isn't the u.s. utilizing **#PublicTelevision** for **#teaching** ? in many areas where internet access is not available, public television is... and last i checked - the cost is nominal when compared to monthly fees for internet or cable tv. and while this will not solve the internet access issue, it will give students the access to continued learning and classes - so many currently do not have.*
The sad thing is that the infrastructure is in place in many areas and is just not used. There is a lot of dark fiber in the ground. Yet the ISP will not spend the money to complete the plant. Not to mention, remember when some companies promised to service rural areas if they get money, or is able to merge with another company? Most of that didn't happen.
I take exception to your characterization of internet broadband speed. 23 mbs is a very good speed for download. In fact, if you have that speed, you can stream movies on multiple devices. I do agree there needs to be a shortening of the gap of access. But, characterizing 23 mbs as slow is not true. DSL comes no where near the speeds of broadband. In my community, those with DSL are getting speeds much much slower than the 25 mbs, I enjoy. A real problem involves upload speeds. Often, upload speeds are as low as 2 mbs. Now that people are working remotely, upload speeds are critical to zoom calls and remote learning. Your story is important, please be accurate.
@@KK-pm7ud not sure what you are asking me. I only corrected the information. 5 people should be able use a connection of 23mbs. There are many factors if you are having issues at that rate, router, wifi, distance from connection, level of streaming bit rate, devices connected, viruses . As i indicated, the real problem is upload speeds. Poor upload speeds make zoom or online learning very difficult. His story should have included that issue. And 5G is horrible on phones. There is a real problem in America and the world with broadband access. I suggest you get info and find out how to bring better access to your area. Now it's the time to act. Be well. Many blessings of good fortune to you
@@videoboy001 Why are you making these incorrect statements? I have 23mbs service, and it is slooowww! Additionally, I amy the only user in the household. It would be useless is 3 or more people were trying to use it at once.
@@stevepenney6459 Down speed of 23Mbps is not slow at all. You can stream FHD without any problem. SD is more than enough for video conferencing. The real problem is always the up speed for 2 way communication.
And more importantly, latency times. You can get 25 mb/s with Hughes Net (satellite), but the latency times are around 1000 ms. That has a catastrophic effect on your internet capability.
Paying $50 bucks/month for 1gbps up and down here in India. I remember when I was in California and being locked in into Comcast and At&t. Heck I was still talking with Comcast executive when i landed in India just to cancel my connection. Just did not make sense. Here in India it was a similar situation and once the smaller companies kicked up a storm, the larger companies had to move to protect market share and now it's a free for all. Prices are only going down.
I live in a rural area in Nor Cal. It’s an infrastructure issue combined with property rights issues. Hard to get cables to our geographically isolated area and hard to get permissions from rural property owners to lay utility cable across their land (and the only way to get it through earthquake prone mountains full of geologically unstable rock and water filled canyons). There is internet in the larger coastal towns, but not ANYWHERE else. Many areas with no phone lines or cell coverage either.
I remember when having dial-up was considered a privilege. Now dial-up is gone the way of VHS and cassette tapes. I live in the Pittsburgh area and we are well equipped for broad band. I remember having the 500/500 MB/s FIOS back in 2014. Yeah it was around $320 a month for internet and phone but I never had an issue with throttled speeds even with my daughters and their mother connecting tablets, phones and my video game console. Now you can get close to 1 GB/s for much less.
These companies shouldn't get a dime until they can show what the money is being used for. Shows how far we have fallen when nearly 80 years ago we could electrify the whole country but now we can't even run some copper a few hundred feet.
In Sweden the farmers got together and dug down fiber all over the place and can choose from any provider they want. So if it had been in Sweden, the family in question could have 1000/1000 internet if she wanted.
We spend $70/mo for not the greatest line of sight wireless internet service because we live in a rural area. AND THE REAL KICKER is we live a little over an hour S of Silicon Valley in the Salad Bowl of America's rural confines! To get a fast speed is cost prohibitive on our retirement budget😬
Re-impose FCC Rules Prior to 1983! -- in other words FCC 1930s were about making sure that unlike the Paper Newspapers the complexity of POWER could not be served by a few. ... Instead the FCC Rules allowed no one more than 7 or corporations more than 7 and which created several levels of competition which Strengthen Local Coverage.
This issue is hardly limited to the "middle of nowhere". A few years ago I lived in Stuart, FL... a town that's neither rural or poor. People on the other side of the street could get broadband but we could not. Having said that, the author featured in the video probably could get satellite internet... you can get that anywhere in the US where you have a clear view of the southern sky. It works ok for email, browsing, and file transfers. Not so well for video conferencing because of its high latency.
@@moi01887 I like that area (Jensen Beach) but a local problem will always be best solved by (if applicable, by the private sector; if not, local gov't; if not, state; if not, last resort, fed)
Not just in the States, either. When internet providers spout out crap like 'it's not technologically possible to provide high speed broadband to your address' they actually mean 'we can't make enough money out of providing high speed broadband to your address'. Proper road, rail, postal and electricity and telephone networks would not exist now with this pathetic nonsense of a 'business plan' by these jokers. By the way, I complained about this to an elected representative, and asked when I might expect high speed broadband. A while later I got a reply. I was told she had made extensive enquiries, and told me 'not to hold your breath'. That was nearly a decade back, and sure enough nothing has changed. Incidentally, it might be of interest to note that the nearest fibre cabinet to me is under two miles away, and there is no river, crocodile-infested swamp or chain of mountains inbetween.
I pay the same as people in town but get a fraction of the speed they get. Maybe they just want everyone to move to the city so they can be more easily controlled.
Me and my family live in rural alabama the cable companies do not have service here and satellite is to expensive for us right now. We have a hot spot that we pay for through my children's school for $50 a month unlimited
Ok, i get it, you cant get the internet. Well..... how would you like to be a native american & your living on the reservation & YOU CANT GET ELECTRICITY OR RUNNING WATER & ITS THE 21ST CENTURY!
I work for a company that sells radio-based communication products that are used by Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs). WISPs are generally small companies who serve local communities with broadband Internet at speeds very competitive with wired Internet service providers. Many traditional service providers, like Redzone in Maine, are beginning to flesh out their service areas with wireless infrastructure. I was disappointed that this piece only discussed wired service which is notoriously expensive in rural areas. Only one person - an EX employee of the FCC - was interviewed to hear what government efforts are underway such as the Connect America Fund (CAF). The story is much more nuanced than this piece tells. I’m disappointed in CBS Sunday Morning. I’m not saying that things are wonderful. I am saying that wireless Internet service is a viable option that is very widely used today. And I want to make clear that “wireless” in this context does not mean cell-phone wireless or WiFi. It is a purpose-built radio technology that had its origins in microwave voice and data transmission.
I thought it was bad where I lived in Jamaica. I had buy prepaid mobile data for more than a decade to get on the Internet. It was extremely expensive, slow, restricted and depleted quickly. I’m talking about Edge data to 3G. Eventually service was provided, and we got 16 MBs installed in 2018 thanks to Flow Jamaica.
Still better than the UK's network. Our's is notoriously out dated only recent few years companies are starting to get together to improve it, but outside of the major cities like Glasgow and London is very slow. The Gigabyte ISP I work for said it'll be some time till they can get anything above 50mb/s in my area which is their very slowest speed they have. Currently still on VDSL 20mb/s via openreach network. But due to the EU and UK rules they started a better PIA system, now the UK is left the EU, who knows if we will back track on it soon
Noahvis4 Gaming i have the internet service through Nomad like he mentions in that video. It’s $129 a month. And it’s terrible. I just went on Verizon’s website and it said nothing was available in my area.
I have an iPhone. Hub has Android. The RV park we’re living in has WIFI which is rather sketchy. But our AT&T service that we pay over $200 for (I’m paying for an Apple Watch and just upgraded my phone) is the worst now that we live in the back of nowhere is great on Android. Sucks for iPhone. I’m told iPhone doesn’t have a very good antenna. I’m not surprised since I sometimes go 2-3 days without service. Maybe I get some early in the day and late at night.
Prepare for a swarm of folks moving to the country when there is finally internet for most. I moved to town to be close to the dialysis clinic. Now I have a new kidney and I'm ready to move back to the country. But not now after being spoiled with great internet service. I'll move back out of town when once and for all there is good internet that reaches the countrysides.
People don’t even know we the tax payers created the internet the United States government along side with MIT created what we know now as the internet and we Privatize it and now we should definitely make it a utility I connect with these people too because I live in rural part where we don’t always have the best WiFi connection.
Maybe check for high speed connectivity before moving to remote pig farms? For the people already in remote places who can get high speed internet, or even in big cities, this should be a national priority.
Upload speed is 1.99mbps. Download, 24.28. We have ridiculously bad internet in western KY. It’s sunny today, so it’s better than when it rains... when the internet works. All of the providers tell us there is high speed internet here. I just moved from a major city. 🤦♀️ It’s like living in 1994 again! (Without the good economy.)
Maybe the woman who moved out to the sticks in Oregon should’ve checked on the status of Internet service there before buying? Also, I would hope that she would at the very least buy some food at the Taco Bell before she “borrows” their free WiFi.
Yeah sorry not sorry. You choose to have a beautiful place out in the wilderness with lower property taxes and expect someone else to pay to run wires all the way out to your place? I'm not paying for it. Go to your public library. It's free there.
This country has so many issues. Obvi this is a bit more of a first-world problem (last week's story on clean and safe water is much more important) but for broadband to be an issue in today's modern technology-focused world, it continues the divide further between the haves and have nots. When will we ever catch up? As far as the pricing/no competition, this could supply so many jobs modernizing a utility to be more widely available. I couldn't believe the speed averages -- I feel grateful my speeds are ~75 mbps and am at the highest price I'm willing to pay ($30/mo). The average is 133?! And 2k is available? What?! And as far as 5G, it causes viruses, doesn't it? (KIDDING.) I don't think 4G is all that great; is 5G that much better?
We need to seriously look at this now especially with kids depending on it for school
Mary Scott Noting will change as long as that idiot is in charge of the FCC and even then, not much will ever change.
Net Neutrality died so the Internet could be turned into a means of Advantage and Disadvantage.
The Internet needs to become a Utility.
Yes we all know where Ajit Pai stands, right behind his undeserved paycheck.
@Dill Rogerz ~ yep. 8 years of mcconnell obstructing at every turn.
Vote - and pray that SpaceX delivers - once they do DSL will die and the Fiber that Americans paid for will finally deploy.
@@brad7571 no. Satellite needs to die out as a very much last resort. The feds need to make investments in fiber not unproven/mediocre satellite
Resources? There are resources, clearly, if billions have been given to companies that have not done what they were supposed to do. The problem is CORRUPTION!!!
Eisenhower’s Federal Highway act literally paved the way for the transportation business over 50 years ago. We need a leader who understands the relationship between economic growth and a robust infrastructure. It’s time for a Federal data highway program.
The sad part is the federal government has already given tens of billions of dollars to ISPs specifically for rural broadband. They took the money and ran.
@@PsRohrbaugh thats because we never attached strings. Like the NASA commercial Cargo and Crew programs, the companies involved have to have results to get more cash. No results, no money.
We should do this for all government funded programs that use private companies, Make em show results or the next batch of funding doesnt unlock.
Ending net neutrality made it worse too, as ISP can slow certain sites or reduce your bandwidth pretty much at their discretion.
Vietnam has almost 90% 3- cell coverage, about 70% 4G coverage. Most of SaiGon has fibre optic service; I have a summer cottage 70 kilometres from the nearest town but I have fibre optic service.
Fibre service is available in all towns and in sparsely populated areas have radio-based or satellite Internet.
Broadband absolutely should be considered a utility and made affordable.
You should do a follow-up to this story by interviewing the people who started SandyNet in Sandy, Oregon. In that city, internet is a public utility.
I'm glad this is being reported on.
This lack of access is based on the cost of building out the service (duh), so since internet is now a necessity for the efficient delivery of information and services (such as tele-medicine and even shopping online), then we must treat the internet like we did electricity (e.g. Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933). Even if you can access the internet though, the monthly cost for many people in the US is a burden.
Sure is a burden! $75.00 a month on Social Security.
@@marjoriefrench6868 We have WiFi for $9.99/mo.
I pay less than 10 dollars per month for a 100 megabit sub 2ms fiber in a '3rd world country'.
What country is this?!
@@zhin13 indiaa
Only in tier 1 and tier 2 cities though.....most of rural india is still using super slow mobile internet in order to get online
@@jyotiradityadeka2905 well you can have. You have the option though!! And fibre is really cheap
@@ankitbiswal710 no I can't....I live 40 minutes from tier 2 city and 200 metres from a state highway....still I can't get even a DSL connection, forget Fibre.
I live in rural Wisconsin and our internet speed just got doubled. From 5 to 10 mbps. Still less than half of the broadband “minimum”
Unbelievable in the United States, greed rules. There is a duopoly in my area, ATT or Comcast, and they are both operate using unethical business tactics which include shady contracts, lying CSR, unresponsive service, unreliable, inconsistent broadband power. I only get 6mbps and a lot of the time I only get around 4 with ATT. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING???
AT&T is the absolute worst.
Terrible network and customer service reps who speak 3rd world English.
Capitalism in action lol
I agree and have had both. I have to say out of both Comcast is a saint compared to AT&T!
We are finally seeing that we have more in common with third world countries than we ever believed before ...
Kind of feels good that there’s really affordable standard quality internet (2-40mbps) average, available in all the corners of India.
I live in Austin TX, and I'm terribly ashamed that the school district had to send out school buses with portable hotspots. I appreciate that the school district came up with a temporary solution, but I'm disturbed that they have to. This city is being managed in an awful way. Like the segment said, we are a high tech city. No one should be without access to the internet, for any reason.
Don't you all have Google fiber there?
@@ephoenix7 Not all neighborhoods have access to Google Fiber, especially apartment complexes. My apartment is in a fairly higher income area, yet I still can't get GF. Now imagine the apartments in lower income areas...not to mention GF is $70/mo.
I live in Austin too, I’m getting 75 bps, Google fiber is not available. I didn’t know 2000 was even available.
Why doesn't a company like Comcast (19th most profitable and 28th largest company, according to the Fortune magazine I recently received) use some of their profits to fix some of this.......oh wait the profits have to go to the stockholders! Where is all of the tax and fees money generated by the 3rd most expensive internet in the world going?
8:55 Agreed.
We need Internet for all
And I complain because my Broadband is only 4.8 Mbps @ £16.99 a month. Though there are rural areas 25 miles from me that have no internet at all as they have no landline phone service and mobile service is spotty, some villages have taken matters into their own hands and laid their own fibre optic cable to the nearest landline cabinet partly funded by a government grant.
So true. This pandemic opened up so many disparities.
Welcome to America!
In these trying times what you say is so terribly true.
Not only should broadband be a public utility. But there should be a tax credit for those of us purchasing data for K-12 public school access. Tax credits already exists for high educational purposes.
Thank you shedding light on this. Internet is a necessity for all Americans.
My ailing mom needs my help at times but I can't work when from her home bc she has no internet. When I left for college I assumed it would come, but I'm 43 & she's still waiting. It's a nightmare.
Only if roosevelt was today's president....
One issue they did not address was property values. I purchased my rural home over 20 years ago, I only had dial up but the internet was not such a big deal and homes sold without an issue. I couple of years ago I noticed many home which were very nice had been abandoned. I talked to the people at the town hall and they said it was because we did not have high speed people could not sell their homes, some just walked away. My town is only 6 miles from three universities with over 28,000 thousand student. Last year we got high speed and all those abandoned homes are now sold. In todays world trying to sell a home without high speed is like trying to sell a home without electricity 50 years ago. Loving my internet and happy to know I will be able to sell my home if I ever want to.
It's deliberate..another way to keep those at the bottom..at the bottom..typical of a oligarchy..should be everywhere and free!
Exactly! Besides it'll be way easier to lay those lines(cables) in rural or small town areas because of less congestion! Instead of sectioning off streets and highways in major cities for weeks or months on end causing unnecessary disruption
Yes the internet is the potential great equalizer. Knowledge is power. The access to it somewhat balances those with and withouts in terms of education.
@@jgaffney567 Indeed. They're excuse is "cost." Yet, every residence has had a landline phone installed. The infrastructure is there! All that's need is to follow those lines. The cost really wouldn't be much more.
@@Ron-iy2ez They now are doing their upmost to do away with landbased lines. They say maintenance is too costly. They are find excuses no matter what The most important thing to them is profit and shareholders. The will spend big to influence politics when they could do the right thing instead. The cost to influence is ok to make the world a better place less so. Besides they can make ads that will convince people that instead of doing it. That is also money better spent. The illusion is enough.
America continues to disappoint especially when it comes to the have nots. Everyone no matter where you live should have Internet. The FCC is a joke, they take your money for those who have Internet and that fee is huge and it goes up every year. Sad 😞
The first thing I thought of was Sam Kinison screaming "You need to live where the food is!" But this isn't funny. I did not know there was actually places like this in the USA... Get these people connected! The internet is the original "New Normal"!
GCEZ28 There’s always satellite internet. You choose to love in the boonies, then you get what comes with it.
I mean ofc internet in America is bad especially in communities not considered either a large city, too poor or anything else when you have business men running the govt instead of those concerned with the public. Up until recently I lived in a rapidly growing town but I don't think we ever got faster than 25-50mbps in my neighborhood (which knowing my luck has now changed there). Now we're capped at 25 and stuck between Windstream and satellite(where the latter has caps). Which as someone who games and tries to have some form of online life neither option is favorable. It's unreliable at worst and slow at best(especially considering things that have to be downloaded aren't getting any smaller). The same with minimum wages and even education funding. Nothing has kept with the times in the US for nearly 2 decades. We have some of the biggest tech brands in the world, but everything hasn't kept pace for us to use things they or other companies around the world make unless you happen to be rich and live in a major city. Otherwise the US gives everyone the middle finger on ensuring everyone has the tools they need to succeed
Ajit is half if the problem. He should resign.
If trump resigned, that would be the whole problem.
In the u.s. the people are working for the politicians and doctors, and the politicians and the doctors don't even care if the citizens have a job or not. They're busy making things very difficult and stressful for the people of the u.s. every day.
And soon we might not have a working postal service....
Murica
I live in a rural area that does not have any internet options. I have called spectrum many times to ask them why they can’t come down our road and they say that our house is in an “inaccessible location”. They ran underground fiber less than a mile from our house, yet they still determine our house as inaccessible. Absolutely ridiculous. I’ve had to deal with LTE data resellers off of eBay to get decent internet through the nearest cell tower, and that is in no way a fast, reliable, and inexpensive form of connection.
I own Community WISP and we love getting internet to homes and businesses all over the rural areas of the USA.
CBS hasn’t hit the nail.
Broadband competition is limited in the U.S.A. and at least 80% of Americans are victims of either a monopoly (no choice) or a duopoly (only one choice) for fixed service. It is worse in rural America, where monopoly is even more prevalent. “The impact is obvious: higher prices, lower quality and/or slowed innovation limiting the ability of people to participate fully in society and the economy,” said Jonathan Sallet of Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. www.benton.org/sites/default/files/benton_competition.pdf
According to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, “90 percent of the cost of deploying broadband is when the work requires significant excavation of the roadway.” Whereas the installation of duct increases overall costs of a highway construction project merely by 1.5% or more in the U.S.A.
It has been fueling the demand for a “Dig Once” law that would mandate the nationwide installation of ducts during roadway construction and upgrades. A study shows that the “Dig Once” legislation could have saved the US$126 billion in broadband deployment costs,” said www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywaz3y/this-simple-law-could-have-saved-the-us-dollar126-billion-in-broadband-deployment-costs
The U.S. House of Representatives members Anna G. Eshoo and David B. McKinley have tabled the “Nationwide Dig Once Act of 2020” and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has passed this bipartisan legislation with a vote of 233-188 on June 19, 2020. Despite compelling evidences of “Dig Once” policy’s outcomes, the “Nationwide Dig Once Act of 2020” is unlikely to become a law due to the incumbents’ covert and overt resistance.
8:30 a Class 2 Utility, same as the Phone lines..
That will make Fiber Internet Practical.
That's what we need, Fiber Internet from coast to coast.
This is a common problem that needs to be fixed yesterday. The whole world is online, without access to the Internet people are at a huge disadvantage that is not fair and very un-American. The FCC needs to pull their heads out of their butts.
Introduce competition into the equation. Allow all companies to put their wires through the public right of way.
that is literally what is allowed today, the issue is cost...
That's already the case for internet services. The reason rural areas have terrible internet options is because laying and maintaining miles of fiberoptic cables is expensive and doesn't give enough return on investment in rural areas for private companies to care about areas that are sparsely populated instead of just continuing to focus on denser areas where each foot of cable brings you close to far more potential customers. They'd have to charge more than almost any customer in a rural area could actually afford.
It's the same reason why the only mail delivery in many rural areas is by USPS (UPS and FedEx won't deliver everywhere) and rural phone service and electricity had to be subsidized by the government. Private companies just don't see it as worth it.
So much winning!
Private industry will not fix the problem. They will not invest in the services all citizens are entitled too.
at this point in time, the internet should be treated as any other 'utility' service: just like electricity or telephone. *why isn't the u.s. utilizing **#PublicTelevision** for **#teaching** ? in many areas where internet access is not available, public television is... and last i checked - the cost is nominal when compared to monthly fees for internet or cable tv. and while this will not solve the internet access issue, it will give students the access to continued learning and classes - so many currently do not have.*
The sad thing is that the infrastructure is in place in many areas and is just not used. There is a lot of dark fiber in the ground. Yet the ISP will not spend the money to complete the plant. Not to mention, remember when some companies promised to service rural areas if they get money, or is able to merge with another company? Most of that didn't happen.
I take exception to your characterization of internet broadband speed. 23 mbs is a very good speed for download. In fact, if you have that speed, you can stream movies on multiple devices. I do agree there needs to be a shortening of the gap of access. But, characterizing 23 mbs as slow is not true. DSL comes no where near the speeds of broadband. In my community, those with DSL are getting speeds much much slower than the 25 mbs, I enjoy. A real problem involves upload speeds. Often, upload speeds are as low as 2 mbs. Now that people are working remotely, upload speeds are critical to zoom calls and remote learning.
Your story is important, please be accurate.
How does that work out for a family of 5?
How do you reconcile the difference in speed as a disadvantage for those who cannot get fast speeds?
@@KK-pm7ud not sure what you are asking me. I only corrected the information. 5 people should be able use a connection of 23mbs. There are many factors if you are having issues at that rate, router, wifi, distance from connection, level of streaming bit rate, devices connected, viruses . As i indicated, the real problem is upload speeds. Poor upload speeds make zoom or online learning very difficult. His story should have included that issue. And 5G is horrible on phones.
There is a real problem in America and the world with broadband access. I suggest you get info and find out how to bring better access to your area. Now it's the time to act. Be well. Many blessings of good fortune to you
@@videoboy001 Why are you making these incorrect statements? I have 23mbs service, and it is slooowww! Additionally, I amy the only user in the household. It would be useless is 3 or more people were trying to use it at once.
@@stevepenney6459 Down speed of 23Mbps is not slow at all. You can stream FHD without any problem. SD is more than enough for video conferencing. The real problem is always the up speed for 2 way communication.
And more importantly, latency times. You can get 25 mb/s with Hughes Net (satellite), but the latency times are around 1000 ms. That has a catastrophic effect on your internet capability.
Paying $50 bucks/month for 1gbps up and down here in India. I remember when I was in California and being locked in into Comcast and At&t. Heck I was still talking with Comcast executive when i landed in India just to cancel my connection. Just did not make sense. Here in India it was a similar situation and once the smaller companies kicked up a storm, the larger companies had to move to protect market share and now it's a free for all. Prices are only going down.
I live in a rural area in Nor Cal. It’s an infrastructure issue combined with property rights issues. Hard to get cables to our geographically isolated area and hard to get permissions from rural property owners to lay utility cable across their land (and the only way to get it through earthquake prone mountains full of geologically unstable rock and water filled canyons). There is internet in the larger coastal towns, but not ANYWHERE else. Many areas with no phone lines or cell coverage either.
half way through the segment a xfinity cable commercial came up.wow
Mind-blowing in the year 2020 DSL and little to no high-speed internet still exists in the U.S. SMH. My beautiful country we must do better!!!
I remember when having dial-up was considered a privilege. Now dial-up is gone the way of VHS and cassette tapes. I live in the Pittsburgh area and we are well equipped for broad band. I remember having the 500/500 MB/s FIOS back in 2014. Yeah it was around $320 a month for internet and phone but I never had an issue with throttled speeds even with my daughters and their mother connecting tablets, phones and my video game console. Now you can get close to 1 GB/s for much less.
That is some crazy expensive internet. I pay about 73.00 a month. I never came close to those numbers.
For $55 a month I get 14.8 Mbps download speed on DSL... Sad
These companies shouldn't get a dime until they can show what the money is being used for. Shows how far we have fallen when nearly 80 years ago we could electrify the whole country but now we can't even run some copper a few hundred feet.
In Sweden the farmers got together and dug down fiber all over the place and can choose from any provider they want. So if it had been in Sweden, the family in question could have 1000/1000 internet if she wanted.
America the great..my foot.
We spend $70/mo for not the greatest line of sight wireless internet service because we live in a rural area. AND THE REAL KICKER is we live a little over an hour S of Silicon Valley in the Salad Bowl of America's rural confines!
To get a fast speed is cost prohibitive on our retirement budget😬
8:40 THANK YOU NICE FARMER LADY!
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Re-impose FCC Rules Prior to 1983! -- in other words FCC 1930s were about making sure that unlike the Paper Newspapers the complexity of POWER could not be served by a few. ... Instead the FCC Rules allowed no one more than 7 or corporations more than 7 and which created several levels of competition which Strengthen Local Coverage.
I describe DSL as a heart attack waiting to happen!
Don't move into the "middle of nowhere" and be surprised when this happens
Did you even look at the video? There's no reason it should.
This issue is hardly limited to the "middle of nowhere". A few years ago I lived in Stuart, FL... a town that's neither rural or poor. People on the other side of the street could get broadband but we could not.
Having said that, the author featured in the video probably could get satellite internet... you can get that anywhere in the US where you have a clear view of the southern sky. It works ok for email, browsing, and file transfers. Not so well for video conferencing because of its high latency.
I live in a rural area. We had this exact same problem 4 years. 📡 We R just now getting high speed internet after 20 years of living here.
You are so naive, Landon, heh
@@moi01887 I like that area (Jensen Beach) but a local problem will always be best solved by (if applicable, by the private sector; if not, local gov't; if not, state; if not, last resort, fed)
Not just in the States, either. When internet providers spout out crap like 'it's not technologically possible to provide high speed broadband to your address' they actually mean 'we can't make enough money out of providing high speed broadband to your address'. Proper road, rail, postal and electricity and telephone networks would not exist now with this pathetic nonsense of a 'business plan' by these jokers.
By the way, I complained about this to an elected representative, and asked when I might expect high speed broadband. A while later I got a reply. I was told she had made extensive enquiries, and told me 'not to hold your breath'. That was nearly a decade back, and sure enough nothing has changed. Incidentally, it might be of interest to note that the nearest fibre cabinet to me is under two miles away, and there is no river, crocodile-infested swamp or chain of mountains inbetween.
Great story I'm from Oregon please America please don't come to Oregon it's our Nirvana on the last unspoiled places on planet Earth
I'm from Central Oregon coast Southern Oregon does suck I'll give you that one LOL
And to the term mefford that applies to the whole West Coast methamphetamine has destroyed many cities on the West Coast
Ashland is a great town I agree that big hill on I-5 be going to California or coming back that can be very interesting for a car engine LOL
Looking to relocate and will diffidently look into Oregon now looks like a great place to live
Thank you
I pay the same as people in town but get a fraction of the speed they get. Maybe they just want everyone to move to the city so they can be more easily controlled.
Me and my family live in rural alabama the cable companies do not have service here and satellite is to expensive for us right now. We have a hot spot that we pay for through my children's school for $50 a month unlimited
Ok, i get it, you cant get the internet. Well..... how would you like to be a native american & your living on the reservation & YOU CANT GET ELECTRICITY OR RUNNING WATER & ITS THE 21ST CENTURY!
Facts.
Pray for Starlink to not to fail !!
This probably explains the unimaginable reason why half the country thinks trump is a good president.
I work for a company that sells radio-based communication products that are used by Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs). WISPs are generally small companies who serve local communities with broadband Internet at speeds very competitive with wired Internet service providers. Many traditional service providers, like Redzone in Maine, are beginning to flesh out their service areas with wireless infrastructure. I was disappointed that this piece only discussed wired service which is notoriously expensive in rural areas. Only one person - an EX employee of the FCC - was interviewed to hear what government efforts are underway such as the Connect America Fund (CAF). The story is much more nuanced than this piece tells. I’m disappointed in CBS Sunday Morning. I’m not saying that things are wonderful. I am saying that wireless Internet service is a viable option that is very widely used today. And I want to make clear that “wireless” in this context does not mean cell-phone wireless or WiFi. It is a purpose-built radio technology that had its origins in microwave voice and data transmission.
I thought it was bad where I lived in Jamaica. I had buy prepaid mobile data for more than a decade to get on the Internet. It was extremely expensive, slow, restricted and depleted quickly. I’m talking about Edge data to 3G. Eventually service was provided, and we got 16 MBs installed in 2018 thanks to Flow Jamaica.
Change need to happen
Internet is the must utility for everyone
Still better than the UK's network. Our's is notoriously out dated only recent few years companies are starting to get together to improve it, but outside of the major cities like Glasgow and London is very slow. The Gigabyte ISP I work for said it'll be some time till they can get anything above 50mb/s in my area which is their very slowest speed they have. Currently still on VDSL 20mb/s via openreach network. But due to the EU and UK rules they started a better PIA system, now the UK is left the EU, who knows if we will back track on it soon
For me to have sketchy internet at my house it’s $130 a month. Ridiculous
Noahvis4 Gaming i have the internet service through Nomad like he mentions in that video. It’s $129 a month. And it’s terrible. I just went on Verizon’s website and it said nothing was available in my area.
Interesting!! This should be a high priority for govts
Just want one more hand out!!!
I have an iPhone. Hub has Android. The RV park we’re living in has WIFI which is rather sketchy. But our AT&T service that we pay over $200 for (I’m paying for an Apple Watch and just upgraded my phone) is the worst now that we live in the back of nowhere is great on Android. Sucks for iPhone. I’m told iPhone doesn’t have a very good antenna. I’m not surprised since I sometimes go 2-3 days without service. Maybe I get some early in the day and late at night.
Prepare for a swarm of folks moving to the country when there is finally internet for most. I moved to town to be close to the dialysis clinic. Now I have a new kidney and I'm ready to move back to the country. But not now after being spoiled with great internet service. I'll move back out of town when once and for all there is good internet that reaches the countrysides.
She could just get a hotspot connection from any phone. She doesn't need broadband
People don’t even know we the tax payers created the internet the United States government along side with MIT created what we know now as the internet and we Privatize it and now we should definitely make it a utility I connect with these people too because I live in rural part where we don’t always have the best WiFi connection.
Maybe check for high speed connectivity before moving to remote pig farms? For the people already in remote places who can get high speed internet, or even in big cities, this should be a national priority.
Upload speed is 1.99mbps. Download, 24.28.
We have ridiculously bad internet in western KY. It’s sunny today, so it’s better than when it rains... when the internet works.
All of the providers tell us there is high speed internet here. I just moved from a major city. 🤦♀️
It’s like living in 1994 again! (Without the good economy.)
Noahvis4 Gaming
Cool! You gonna buy it for me? 😉😂💜
Noahvis4 Gaming We’re a no-Verizon zone. And AT&T is *very* patchy. I lose cell signal twice going to our only grocery store that’s 2 miles away. 😂
Urban internet is nonexistent! Think about that!
Maybe the woman who moved out to the sticks in Oregon should’ve checked on the status of Internet service there before buying? Also, I would hope that she would at the very least buy some food at the Taco Bell before she “borrows” their free WiFi.
She looks well fed so she probably has made a few
“runs for the border!”😀
The FCC won't let me be or let me be me so let me see
They tried to shut me down on MTV
But it feels so empty without me
The "free market" in action lol
Get satellite internet. Prices have gone way down and caps eased or erased. She didn’t try hard looking for internet solutions.
U don’t want internet it’s all BS!! We lived with out this for centuries most of it is lies $ u don’t need to spend!
Oh the IRONY of this YouuTube comment.
Lady... you’re ON the internet leaving your comment about it being BS.
SMH.
It is so strange to hear about that somebody have no Internet
North Georgia is like that.
In almost every metric, America is most developed 3rd world country in the world.
First World country???
some can't afford it and some it does not reach rural areas.
Should have talked more about Starlink. That's exactly what those people in Maine need...
I was thinking the same thing just reading the title!
Starlink won't work with that population density even there.
Would love to live somewhere without the internet.
Yeah sorry not sorry. You choose to have a beautiful place out in the wilderness with lower property taxes and expect someone else to pay to run wires all the way out to your place? I'm not paying for it. Go to your public library. It's free there.
How is this not an issue the presidential candidates are speaking about?
$55 a month for fios. Overpriced to say the least
Housing costs are much cheaper in rural areas where broadband isn't affordable.
When calling just doesn't cut it.😶
I have Time Warner Spectrum in Austin, Texas. Hence, I am in the group of sh@tty service 40%. SPECTRUM SUCKS
Fiber by Susan Crawford is a good book to read on this subject
NO competition? Thanks Bill Clinton. The telecommunications act is working wonders...for the ISP's.
#Vermont
This country has so many issues. Obvi this is a bit more of a first-world problem (last week's story on clean and safe water is much more important) but for broadband to be an issue in today's modern technology-focused world, it continues the divide further between the haves and have nots. When will we ever catch up? As far as the pricing/no competition, this could supply so many jobs modernizing a utility to be more widely available. I couldn't believe the speed averages -- I feel grateful my speeds are ~75 mbps and am at the highest price I'm willing to pay ($30/mo). The average is 133?! And 2k is available? What?! And as far as 5G, it causes viruses, doesn't it? (KIDDING.) I don't think 4G is all that great; is 5G that much better?
If you want internet don't move in the middle of nowhere.
"If you want food don't move to a city" lol