[quote=Captain Jordan]
That's going to be very difficult when there's only one ISP in your area.
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I assume that the rural areas aren't going to be driving the market (they never are, or they wouldn't be called 'rural.') ComCast isn't going to make much money if the only people they can extort are Nevada moisture farmers. They're going to have to structure their service to fit the whole national demand, or they're not going to make any money.

Remember -- Dish can sell you high-speed internet without burying a single cable. So can Verizon, Sprint, AT&T.... we're really not that deadlocked anymore. We've got pretty good networks going up all over, and if there's an increased demand for new networks, that's only going to accelerate the process of development.

There's not much point in guessing about it though. In five years when the internet hasn't collapsed, we'll all know that I was right. Or you'll disappear from my life, and I won't have to admit that I was wrong.