resolv.conf questions

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:18:06 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 09:01:22AM -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
> > >>Statistically means numbers. Here they are:  https://broadbandnow.com/DSL 90% coverage...
> > Im calling bs on this coverage. DSL may be offered 'virtually
> > everywhere' but only in name. Between ill maintained lines, outdated
> > and weathered lines, dsl isnt not a realistic option. This (my
> > opinion) only applies to the density of cities where there are lots of
> > potential customers for the phone company to target. This is not true
> > outside of cities throughout the midwest. Not with DSL.
> 
> https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
> says that 82.3% of the US population is "urban".  I appreciate that that
> can have a variety of meanings, but is it not nevertheless true that
> most people in the US live in cities?  I think the 90% there is meant to
> refer to population, not land area.

Because of how telecom works (or really does not work) in the USA, we (the
population of USA, urban or rural) are pretty much at the mercy of a *small
number* (4) of big telecoms, which have no motivation to bother to provide
anything like "world class" Internet service. They have the urban areas in
monopoly control and the rural areas are petty much completely out of the
picture.

https://billmoyers.com/segment/susan-crawford-on-why-u-s-internet-access-is-slow-costly-and-unfair/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xI847vQTto


> 
> (Note, I'm not talking about fairness here, just about the current
> figures.)
> 

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