Just like a family under financial pressure has to cut out niceties like dinners out and premium cable tv, so does our state government have to cut back. People in rural areas can still get internet service, the connection will still be there, they just will have to pay for it themselves.  Maybe these communities need to start pulling their own weight for once, instead of urban Alaska and state and feds paying the bills year after year. The state can't afford it anymore -- so boo hoo, cry us a river. Pay for your own internet. We know people mainly use the internet to do online shopping and get on Facebook. The internet does not suppress the political process, come on, people voted before the internet was invented.