> They have to go to McDonalds and use the internet.
So how is such a McDonalds wired and the tract homes I assume people live in in Little Rock are not wired?
Little Rock is definitely wired though. I've lived in suburbs and satellites of Little Rock (West end, midtown, Maumelle, Jacksonville). Also smaller towns, White Hall and Jefferson county outside of any town, and had decent cable internet or DSL everywhere I've been from CenturyTel (I think it was) or Comcast, or AT&T UVerse. Really I wonder which "suburb of Little Rock" the articles example person lived in, because it doesn't match my experience. Granted there are some pretty remote parts of Arkansas that I'm sure don't have those options, but the Little Rock area seems well covered to me.
In the county, a few miles from the little rock city border (but still with a little rock address), my brother didn't have any internet access except satellite until last year.