Utilities are really expensive in a place like that. It is fairly easy to run a utility when you average 100 feet between each customer, and when you can have o

Utilities are really expensive in a place like that. It is fairly easy to run a utility when you average 100 feet between each customer, and when you can have one hub station that covers a 1-mile radius and serves 5,000 people. It's really hard when the line from one house to the next costs a year's subscription fees, and one hub covers 50 people. This is why fiber is currently only common in the cities right now. Costs haven't come down enough for it to get to suburban locations, much less rural.