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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Where DSL, cable Internet is unavailable, rural users welcome satellite Internet - SANDY STAGGS, Herald-Journal
Ginny Anderson is all too familiar with that piercing noise - like the screeching wail from a wounded animal or acrylic nails scraping across a classroom chalkboard. Then comes the excruciating part: the waiting, and waiting, and waiting and waiting … Many in Spartanburg County may have forgotten the hissing sound and snail's pace of a modem connecting to the World Wide Web, but not Anderson and the other nearly 15 percent of area households who have, in effect, been shut out of the high-speed Internet revolution. She pulled the plug on both her modem and additional phone line in favor of a new technology - satellite broadband.
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