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Hear hear. We need a new rural electrification act that pushes fiber to every nook and cranny of the country.
by zrail 6y ago
Hear hear. We need a new rural electrification act that pushes fiber to every nook and cranny of the country.
- ghaff 6y agoThough unlike electricity, it's going to be increasingly practical to deliver decent internet speeds via cellular and satellite. So I'm not sure that pushing wired connections to every individual house is the best approach at this point.
- dillonmckay 6y agoNot with arbitrary limits on monthly data transfer amounts.
- rbanffy 6y agoThere is no better incentive than having to compete against subsidized fiber.
- ghaff 6y agoOf course, a lot of that subsidy will come from more urban areas. Which I'm mostly fine with but I imagine a lot of people here are probably not.
- rbanffy 6y agoLiving in society is not free of cost.
- ghaff 6y agoCertainly. I'm just remarking that one sees a lot of negativity here, presumably from city dwellers, with respect to infrastructure subsidies for more spread out areas.
- zrail 6y agoThat’s not how the REA works. It provides loans to rural electric cooperatives at reasonable interest rates.
- lonelappde 6y agoSubsidized wireless is better.
- jsymolon 6y agoLot more bandwidth with fiber.