> FCC numbers are pure fiction. It is well known that providers are GREATLY exaggerating their coverage and available capacity to rural and semi rural areas. T

> FCC numbers are pure fiction. It is well known that providers are GREATLY exaggerating their coverage and available capacity to rural and semi rural areas. Thank you. At risk of piling on a "+1" comment, I will add a little bit of context. My parents live about 35 miles from a "midwest urban core", they are served by Frontier. Supposedly they can get "1.5Mbps DSL" which qualifies as broadband. On a good day they can get 64k. This has degraded from about 768k ~10 years ago, to ~64k today. Absolute no maintenance other than "electrons kinda flowish" has been done on these lines. But, my parents and their neighbors of ~150 households totally count for "broadband" stats. The fraud going on here is absolutely mind boggingly in scope. The "lie big if you're going to lie" thing comes into mind here. Billions evaporated due to nothing other than absolutely in-your-face fraud.