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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Lincoln, Nebraska: Broadband options — What are yours?

By NATE JENKINS / Lincoln Journal Star

If Michael Mason is town, then Jon Holzfaster is country, but you won’t notice the distinction by looking at their Internet service.

For years, Mason has sought high-speed Internet to better run his Internet-reliant business. Along the way, he said, he has been told numerous times by Alltel officials that “it’s coming soon.” He even gets advertisements in the mail, Mason said, asking him to subscribe to the most popular high-speed tool, DSL.

But six months before 2007 — a date President Bush set two years ago as the time when all citizens should have affordable access to broadband — Mason still spends his days in the Internet equivalent of a traffic jam.

He’s stuck with dial-up service.

read more: Lincoln Journal Star

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