“Should Annabel Felton ever get broadband Internet at her home, it will be too late for her daughters, who are both in college.
But it won’t be too late for her, or her husband.
And someday she might want to sell her home, perhaps to a young family. And that young family, she tells me, will almost certainly expect high-speed Internet service.
“It wasn’t until I had children in school that it became apparent that it was time to get broadband,” Felton told me, when I visited her home on Creek Road in Duanesburg, a small town on the outskirts of Schenectady County. “It gets difficult when their classroom studies are online. … We have kids who need to compete in a global economy.”
Broadband is no longer a luxury, and hasn’t been for some time — it’s a service that the vast majority of Americans have come to expect.
But there are still places where people don’t have access to it, especially in rural, less populated areas. Felton lives in one of those places, as do over 300 other Duanesburg residents. “
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Foss, Sara. Schenectady Gazette 1 March 2019.