| <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { | | | | Despite it's benefits in availability, the phone |
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| Music is the soundtrack to our lives – and | | | | affordability issues. Even though DSL service |
| nothing is more important to many people than | | | | might be available in a rural location, it usually |
| the expansion of a music library to include their | | | | comes with some strings attached. These usually |
| new favorite tracks. For most modern computer | | | | include the requirement to have home phone |
| users, this means having access to the wide | | | | service, and perhaps even long distance service |
| variety of new music available for purchase and | | | | depending on the company. This often causes a |
| download via the world wide web. With nearly | | | | problem for people who use their cell phones as |
| every musical taste or genre available, putting | | | | their home phone, since they may not want to |
| together a music collection today without access | | | | sign up for new service. Without a home phone |
| to the internet seems unthinkable. But if you live | | | | line, DSL service is frequently unavailable – or |
| in an area without reliable high speed internet | | | | even if it is (for instance from a 3rd party |
| access, it's very much a reality. New satellite | | | | provider), it might be prohibitively expensive. |
| broadband internet access helps this cause | | | | |
| though, as many rural users are taking advantage | | | | This is where satellite broadband internet access |
| of lower prices on this "available anywhere" | | | | comes into play. Formerly for people living in only |
| service. | | | | the most remote of regions, satellite internet |
| | | | | access has come down substantially in cost in |
| Rural users have long been stuck with poor | | | | recent years. Equipment used to large and |
| access options to get online. With cable, there has | | | | cumbersome to install, with access requiring two |
| to be existing service to a location for cable TV in | | | | separate dishes. Today, the equipment is less |
| order to get broadband internet. What's worse, it | | | | expensive, extremely easy for a contractor to |
| usually requires a huge commitment to TV | | | | install within an hour or so, and only one small dish |
| service packages that a true music lover might | | | | (that looks like a typical satellite TV mini-dish) is |
| not want anyway. Besides, if you're living in a rural | | | | required for access. The costs for subscription |
| area – you might already have TV brought to | | | | service have come down markedly as well, with |
| you via a dish, and subscribing to a new cable | | | | equipment and installation often being included for |
| service might not sound so appealing. The next | | | | a fixed cost in some cases. This makes satellite a |
| place that many customers turn is to their phone | | | | great option for music lovers seeking a large |
| company, which usually has lines running to most | | | | amount of download bandwidth despite living in a |
| rural locations. | | | | rural area. |
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