As a current Verizon customer, I say the same thing. According to their map I am in a 3G full coverage area yet I have spotty or no services at all for miles around. When my contract expires in December, I'm out.

Drinkin the koolaid!!!!

Dude. A little to much time on the Huffington Post.

Really!!!!! Where? how? Canada? UK? NOT!

Probably because guys like me will still be driving my already 40+ year old vehicles. Of course that could be overcome with RFID or GPS base license plates.

Really? You don't expect those taxes payments to come out of your wallet? huh.

Like Canada's cross country express, the cost of maintenance is going to drive the price of tickets, unless of course our tax dollars used to build it will also be used to keep it operating. That would likely make it a very expensive way to travel also. I can usually fly from Atlanta to Chicago for under $200 return. Considering it would make a probable 6-8 hour one way trip into 2.5 I'm not likely to chose rail. Granted those are not likely begin/end points for rail but the point is that the cost of air travel vs time to travel is pretty hard to compete with.

Duh, yours!

I'll Second that. 18 years in IT and I view the cellphone as a leash of no value to me personally. Broadband at work has value, but at home it is a distraction. My company pays the bill for both but I still just have a slow speed service at home, it is adequate.

I've had broadband for years before mid 2008. The only think that amazed me was how liberating it was to be without it. Life improved, i just bought 10 acres in the country. I started to do a little farming, take more hikes, cut wood. It's all a huge stress relief from a long week at the office.

So contrary to most posts on this story.....Don't buck it til you've tried it. Put down the keyboard/mouse/plastic guitar/cellphone/remote/whatever and go outside. Heck, start spending a day or two a month pickuping all the freakin garbage us Americans love to leave all over the place and see how you feel. You will be suprised....and a little more fit.

Same argument could be made for how it truly destroys lives and families. It is all situational, what is good for one is not automatically good for everyone......even those that supposedly don't know any better.

I had it for years, therefore I know it's value to ME. I only have low speed line now and it is all I need. /System Engineer and work from home via VPN 1 day a week.