The lack of an overall internet backup plan could be devastating. The unregulated nature of the internet means that many areas of the country have no backup plan for outages. Since it is often not financially advantageous for internet service providers to have backup systems in small towns and rural locations, this could have a dramatic impact on businesses in those areas. For more information, https://www.apnewsarchive.com/2015/Vandalism-and-other-Internet-outages-reveal-lack-of-backup-systems-for-US-broadband-service/id-08443bb3c46743df8a0b729e97d2db8d