There is a problem with broadband in some areas. Let me explain. Before the economy went dodgy, the cable contracts for many areas were purchased and set up. They basically bid and in some cases only one company bid for a particular area (usually the really rural ones and small towns). In the case of the small town in which I live, the contract for broadband and cable is basically owned by a now defunct company. Cable happens to have a special kind of a variance but unfortunately it does not include the broadband service. There is no way to contact the long lost company that held the rights contracts, so our area can not get broadband. Luckily, AT & T have fiber optics running and I have U-Verse internet. But, we could not get the cable internet or broadband because the rights to all of that sort of a thing was owned by a company that no longer exists.

Sometimes, the phone lines are made of the wrong thing. We were told that a length of line about four feet long prevented us from getting AT&T high speed internet because the lines can not be changed out per the old contract mentioned above. We had friends who lived nearby who went to town hall meetings to beg for the contract to be fixed, but they got the run around. Try to see if Uverse internet is available in your area. I was surprised that it was in ours and it's nearly as fast as Cable or DSL.
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I don't see it happening till its government mandated. I do however think there's somesort of weird data line teleco's are required by law to supply I'll try and dig that up.

I think its ISDN. I remember a podcaster saying he forced his telephone company to supply it because by law they had two he used it because it has less latency than typical ISP constructs he uses it for mission critical radio broadcasts. Bandwidth on that looks pretty punny though.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN_Line

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You are not alone in having this problem,I live in Spain and the situation is very similar.Here it is called ADSL (?),and although it's available in quite a few areas,the cost for a lot of people is too high.Also, you don't get such a high speed as for instance in the U.K .You tend to see adverts for a cheaper than normal price and when you enquire,it is not available in your area.
I don't see the situation improving anytime soon,if the recession ends I think things will start to change for the better,meanwhile I shall stick with my slow but cheap dial-up and rely on my old friend 'DownloadAcceleratorPlus' to help speed up my downloads.This is an excellent free program,even if you do have broadband.
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