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Large ISPs Blame Consumer Protections for Their Disregard of Rural America
- test6554 8y agoTo some extent this is true. We want rural America to have internet access. We are (so far) unwilling to do it ourselves. It is too expensive for smaller ISPs to set it up. So we need large ISPs to come in and spend millions of dollars building out networks in rural areas. But whether they do this is entirely up to them. We need to decide whether having a terrible rural ISP is better or worse than having no ISP at all. Also will the presence of a terrible ISP make it more or less likely that a good ISP will offer services in rural areas in the future.