Rural Community Development

Satellite Internet Gets Rural Communities “with It”

When it comes to being “with it” – including all related things that manage to fit underneath that blanket statement – cities pretty much seem to take the cake. With all of the people and all of the madness, living in cities offers something not usually found in the rural areas of the country. New art shows, movie premieres and highly praised restaurants are just some of the features that small towns just cannot seem to keep up with. Not to mention that with the recent developments in WiMax and mobile broadband technologies, everyone that lives in a city is keeping up with the current pace of the wireless Internet world.

Yet, when comparing the rural areas to the city life, it seems that those small towns in the mountain areas and farm regions are nowhere close to being “with it.” Due to the lack of culture, the lack of variety and the lack of DSL and cable Internet infrastructures, many people consider these towns to be somewhat archaic, as if the they were moving backwards while the whole world moved forward. Besides, it is the common plotline in many Hollywood movies for the star to leave their small town roots in hopes of opportunities in the big city, since staying put in their hometown would lead them down a dead-end road.

Well, although the stereotypes of the rural areas seem to be concrete, new advances in satellite Internet technology – more specifically satellite broadband – have started to put a damper on nationwide beliefs that small towns are not “with it.” Since satellite Internet broadband utilizes geosynchronous orbiting dishes to relay a high-speed Internet signal to its user, people living in rural areas are able to access the Internet and navigate it properly, in the same manner as those city folk. Since most of these people live outside of the DSL and cable infrastructures, they were once completely stuck with slow dial-up connections, ones that hindered any type of true exploration of the World Wide Web. But with satellite Internet, these small town and rural area inhabitants are attaining speeds at least 10 times faster than dial-up, allowing them to keep up with the rapid lives of the city folk and thus be “with it.” They may not get to see the constant live performances or eat at the most fancy of new restaurants, but they can surely read about them and learn all that there is to know about them while living the relaxed life outside of the urban environment.

Additionally, now that high-speed Internet is available through a satellite broadband connection, that stale Hollywood story of the young person moving to the big city to make it is no longer applicable. Since more and more young entrepreneurs and business hopefuls are freelancing now more than ever before, they are able to work from anywhere within the country with ease. Therefore, there is never any need for people to leave home just to further their career.

Granted, going to a city is really fun for a few days, to see the sights and sounds that do not exist in those small hometowns. But, when it boils down to it, living in the quiet parts of the country really have more advantages than living in the clustered, overpopulated city centers. And now that technological innovations have allowed these rural areas to be “with it,” those old stereotypes about those country folk no longer hold water.

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