| Since the 1990s the Hur Herald has hot-tracked the coming of high-speed broadband to the rural areas of West Virginia.
It has been a travesty of promises, mostly broken.
Nonetheless, "high speed" customers pay the top dollar for service they are not getting.
The Mountain State "broadband" in most rural areas is cobbled service, but customers are now use to the service, they settle for whatever they can get.
Following numerous federal initiatives, much of America remains behind the developed countries in getting real broadband.
West Virginia, according to most studies, remains at or near the bottom with access and real broadband speeds.
READ West Virginia Broadband Customers See Slower-Than-Advertised Speeds
By Marcus Constantino, Multimedia Reporter for the Charleston Daily Mail
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