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If air flight is a necessity it should not be in private hands. Nothing essential should be making profit for anybody. Everything essential should be provided by the government through taxation and should be at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer.
Healthcare, electricity, water, natural gas (before it's phased out) and some kind of basic isp and cell system that provides a minimum level of service (like 500kb/s with no data cap).
I agree with everything except for “500kb/s” that is not enough…
5 Mbps would be my lower limit, if I had to set one.
500kb/s is enough to access online services (like federal, provincial, healthcare, etc), would be easy to provide even in remote areas and a negligible cost to network operators. The only reason people "need" megabit connections today is endless feeds of video content.
500 kbit/s is just awfully slow.
You talk like megabit is overkill, when in fact it's absolutely not.
If you're even gonna bother with providing networking to everyone at least set your bar a little higher.
Forcing them to provide free 1-10 Mbit/s to everyone in range of a WWAN or using regular wired WAN, wouldn't affect operators in any meaningful way.
So punishment for being poor?
There is no technological reason for it to be that limited...