Blame the shortage of bandwidth. We need bigger digital pipelines to speed video, voice and data connections to our homes and offices.
Electronic commerce waits for consumers to get faster on-line access.
Digital traffic jams discourage would-be telecommuters. Ultimately, perhaps there will be virtual reality field trips, business conferencing and grocery shopping over the Internet. But not yet. Not without true deregulation. In regions like West Virginia, Internet backbones, the conduits of fiber optic cable that carry massive amounts of long-haul Internet traffic, are scarce.