Although the percentage of Americans that can't get connected to the Internet has been going down over the years the need to be connected has gone up. It is more important than ever to find fiber optic Internet service in your area. It is hard to learn in school these days without an Internet connection.
Back when electricity was new it wasn't always easy to get electricity all the way to your house if you lived out in the country. Okay, maybe electricty wasn't actually "new" but having it connected to your house and using it to toast your bread and heat up your oatmeal was. Since it was hard to get electricy way out in the boondocks electrical co-ops were formed to help get power to all the houses.
Fast forward eighty or so years and people who don't live in the city are having the same issues with high speed Internet connections in their towns. It is expensive to install Internet to people's homes.
One problem now is that although they won't spend the money to connect them, the existing commercial ISPs don't want any competition so they sometimes try to make laws to make it harder for co-ops and municipalities to install Internet lines.
Ajit Pai, the new FCC Commissioner, seems to be taking orders from his former employer, Verizon and working to maintain the existing ISPs dominance in the industry. There are about 60 electrical co-ops that have started to offer Internet to make sure the residents can get access to the high speed fiber optic Internet in their zip codes.
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