• Re: Microsoft Data Suggests 162M Americans without access to

    From Xenos@21:4/147 to Nristen on Wed Apr 10 13:11:50 2019
    RE: Re: Microsoft Data Suggests 162M Americans without access to broadband
    BY: nristen (21:1/161)

    On Tuesday, April 09, 2019 at 03:18 PM, Nristen (21:1/161) wrote:


    Currently I believe that exposing BBSes to cell phones would be the easies n>way to connect rural users to BBSing or Gopher or similar low bandwidth n>services.

    I'm interested in this too. The question though is if: (a) enough working modems are still available and (b) are dialup/land-lines also available in the last-mile.

    Allowing that, the difficulty of setting up and actually using dial-up will be a factor to consider. Cost is just one aspect.

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