Sustainable Loband in the Cloud?

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As the discussion over rural broadband heats up, there's sure to be plenty more discussion as to the efficacy of the proposed solutions. Here's one that novel - Loband. Put out by Aptivate, Loband is a free service that simplifies web pages in order to make them download faster over slow Internet connections. The simplified page viewed through Loband contains the same text information as the original, with attempts to preserve the formatting as well. No colors or images though - these are removed. Can Loband save billions of dollars in government-subsidized telecom in rural broadband? Maybe. ...