On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 15:09:09 -0700, "Scott Weeks" said:
Or some live where there is no cell coverage, don't watch TV, live where their neighbors are far away and no gov't folks are going to knock on doors because the driveway is long, locked at the front gate and there're dogs in the yard... :-)
Population density issues (you can only have so many people with long driveways and neighbors far away per square mile) mean that these people are *way* down the long tail. Right up there with people who live on tiny almost uninhabited islands out in the middle of the ocean. :) Since there isn't infinite money to build a system that will reach *everybody*, the only reasonable approach is to cobble together a set of overlapping systems on existing technology that covers the most people while staying inside the funding restrictions.