Cashman - it's not free internet. It's like telephone and electric service. You should be ABLE to CHOOSE to purchase the service no matter where you live.

My mom lives in VERY rural Indiana. Can't afford much. She's on dialup because there's no broadband out there. She'd like the CHOICE to at least get a form of DSL out there. She's not asking anyone to subsidize her service - she's quite conservative. But if we could subsidize AVAILABILITY of phone and electric to rural areas in the 20th Century, why can't we do the same for telecommunications in the 21st?