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This should be the sort of thing that gives cable and broadband companies pause. Apple co-founder and generally techish guy Steve Wozniak does not have broadband internet at his home in Los Gatos, California.
"I, Steve Wozniak, don't have broadband at my home," he told a business forum in Perth, Australia, according to news.com.au.
Of course, it isn’t like he doesn’t use the internet. He just does it through wireless devices like the kind his company makes by the ton. Between 3G and LTE, he’s apparently able to get along just fine.
Wozniak cited monopoly-like conditions relating to the local phone companies and infrastructure as to why it just doesn’t make sense for him to go that route. He said, according to Gizmodo:
There are 50 companies that want to sell me DSL, but they've all got to go through the Horizon wires—the local phone company—and I've got one of the two worst Horizons in the country. And so I can't get broadband in my house.
It’s an interesting point – many Americans might not quite live in a place where wireless access can supplant broadband, but that technology is improving by leaps and bounds faster than the competition. The day when LTE access becomes a large number of Americans prime mode of internet access can’t be too far off.
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