The reason? Mobile broadband is not matched by backhaul broadband. Most tower links use T1 connections running at 1.544 Mbps.
That clearly is not good enough for mass adoption of mobile broadband services. Internet service providers located in rural areas have additional problems, though. Quite often, regional connections between local points of presence and the nearest Internet PoPs also use T1 connections.
If you wonder why "middle mile" projects were so prominent in the first wave of broadband stimulus awards, that's why.
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same problem in the Uk. Not enough masts and insufficient feed to them. Only areas of dense population have anything like coverage, and lots of complaints about very slow connections. Rural areas have very bad connections with many black holes. Hope America gets the sums right and provides the people with decent connections, then UK will follow suit.
This is an issue worldwide. The off the cuff remark I've heard is "Fiber is coming soon enough, then all of our worries are over". Unfortunately fiber reaches only about 15% of base stations....
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