{"id":87,"date":"2013-02-24T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/i-dont-want-to-say-we-dont-have-broadband-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-2013-02-19.html"},"modified":"2013-02-24T15:09:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T20:09:19","slug":"i-dont-want-to-say-we-dont-have-broadband-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-2013-02-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/i-dont-want-to-say-we-dont-have-broadband-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-2013-02-19.html","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t want to say we don&#8217;t have broadband &mdash;Andrea Schruijer @ VLCIA 2013-02-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S9CpR_jLCxA&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy&amp;index=19\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017ee8b58f52970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017ee8b58f52970d-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nUnfortunately, Andrea Schruijer made clear that much of what\nhad just been said at the\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-on-the-table-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\">\nthe Industrial Authority 19 February 2013<\/a>\nhadn&#8217;t been heard.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s not that we&#8217;re saying we don&#8217;t have broadband.\nWe have connectivity; that&#8217;s not the issue.\nWe have great partners that help us with that.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S9CpR_jLCxA?list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nWell, local &#8220;leaders&#8221; need to learn to say it:\n<strong>&#8220;we don&#8217;t have broadband!&#8221;<\/strong>\nMany of the people of Lowndes County and even more in the surrounding\ncounties\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/01\/30000-saved-by-library-furloughs-millions-for-building-construction-idelle-dear-lcc-2013-01-08.html\">\ncan&#8217;t afford Internet access at all, as Idelle Dear told the Lowndes County\nCommission<\/a>.\nAnd the &#8220;great partners&#8221; Ms. Schruijer bragged about will never provide\nit for us without a lot of prodding, because AT&amp;T and Verizon\nand Sprint and Comcast and Mediacom don&#8217;t think anything outside the\nAtlanta beltway has enough population density to bother with,\nand even in Atlanta all people get is U.S.-style low-speed low-reliability\nInternet connectivity that would never even be on sale in Japan or France\nor Korea or Finland or even Estonia.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eg_9Yz00dkg&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017ee8b58f5a970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017ee8b58f5a970d-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nTom Call illustrated my point when he\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eg_9Yz00dkg&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\">\ntalked about a residential project<\/a>\nwhere a provider installed cable and claimed they were providing voice, TV, and Internet access, but then didn&#8217;t actually have the capacity for Internet\nwhen people started using it.\n<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eg_9Yz00dkg?list=PLshUv86fYkiE7YkPn71zSYTEXtiCvVuRe\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI know a nearby subdivision with cable some of whose inhabitants\nhave dropped it entirely in favor of Verizon&#8217;s 4G LTE wireless service,\nbecause it&#8217;s faster and more reliable.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nMs. Schruijer talked about a recent meeting of the\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eg_9Yz00dkg&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\">\nSouth Region Joint Development Authority<\/a>.\nThey seemed to be mostly interested in a golf tournament.\nAlso they just had a\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T5pfUT9wowg&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\">quail hunt.<\/a>\nLocal and traditional activities, for sure, but where is the\nvideo of the quail hunt online on VLCIA&#8217;s website?\nThat it&#8217;s not there indicates they don&#8217;t really understand their\nsudden emphasis on broadband.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd finally a word from the only person in the room\nwith actual experience in bringing Internet broadband to new areas;\nsee\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/im-super-excited-about-the-whole-broadband-thing-gretchen-quarterman-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\">\nnext post<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unfortunately, Andrea Schruijer made clear that much of what had just been said at the the Industrial Authority 19 February 2013 hadn&#8217;t been heard. 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