There are some places in the US where the only reason they aren’t still stuck on dialup is because of the cellular data network and/or starlink sattelite internet.
Especially at the time it could have been useful as a backup connection. Where I work our network team had to work very hard to get all of our locations a backup connection that didn’t go through the same physical “line” as what we already had (so much of the physical infrastructure is comingled). We’d prefer not to have a location shut down because of an errant backhoe.
There are some places in the US where the only reason they aren’t still stuck on dialup is because of the cellular data network and/or starlink sattelite internet.
Especially at the time it could have been useful as a backup connection. Where I work our network team had to work very hard to get all of our locations a backup connection that didn’t go through the same physical “line” as what we already had (so much of the physical infrastructure is comingled). We’d prefer not to have a location shut down because of an errant backhoe.