What Do Internet Service Providers in New York Have in Common With Farmers
According to the US Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistic Service, the farming community has been dropping their dialup service in a dramatic fashion – not because they are not connected to the worldwide web, but because traditional forms of wireline services – DSL and cable internet, as well as wireless and satellite internet service, are taking over rural communities in a dramatically swift fashion. Among internet service providers in New York those numbers just might include Verizon Internet Service. 38% of farms are now accessing the worldwide web with DSL service, and 20% have gone wireless. About 20% are using Satellite service and 11% are using cable. Dialup service usage among rural farming communities has dropped from 35% to only 12%.
We have so many options available today in high speed internet. With such a high percentage of farms getting connected through DSL service, as infrastructures spread and mature, this technology will definitely be firmly entrenched in the marketplace for years to come. DSL will be the country’s new dialup, so to speak, as advances in WiMax and fiber optics march on. So what’s to come of dialup? Well, as they say, capitalism has a way of determining who makes money. Clearly, dialup was an important precursor to what we see today in internet choices.