
Are rural Americans getting ripped off on home internet?
A big disparity across North America is access to reliable, fast internet connection. In the United States, tens of millions of consumers live in AT&T and Verizon serviced territories where they “can only buy slow DSL Internet from the companies, yet they often have to pay the same price as fiber customers who get some of the fastest broadband speeds,” says Ars Technica. This sad fact was unveiled by a new white paper written by broadband advocacy group, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA). According to the white paper, “AT&T has been charging $60 a month to DSL customers for