In rural California we didn’t even have cable at our homes or businesses.

Here in rural Kentucky fiber optics costs us $40.00 bucks a month. My son in law works from home and manages call centers in five countries (and travels a lot). The best part of the New Yorker story about fiber in Eastern Kentucky was this:

“Between five and eight every morning, before she heads to Teleworks, she talks with schoolchildren in China who are trying to improve their English. The conversations each last twenty minutes and Hays is paid twenty-five dollars an hour. “We joke that there are going to be all these kids in China with Southern accents,” she said.”