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I’m curious what happens with rural terrestrial broadband. Does it dry up and die or do the telecoms try to compete at a relatively high cost per customer. Ma
by jcims 6y ago
I’m curious what happens with rural terrestrial broadband. Does it dry up and die or do the telecoms try to compete at a relatively high cost per customer. Many don’t have dial tone and satellite TV bundles aren’t competitive so they will likely lose the customer completely and are left with an asset that makes no money.
They might open the local loop back up to at least get rent?
- daniellarusso 6y agoThe DSL providers have already neglected their maintenance and upgrades. I was the last one in my neighborhood to be allowed 12Mbps download. All new accounts are maximum of 6Mbps. I would like to see reform in the CATV franchise laws.
- jcims 6y agoYep, got DSL at my current location in 2008 and they haven't upgraded anything since then. Very minor bump in peak bw they would configure, I'm at 15M/768k and that's as high as it goes. Network is garbage though and lots of time it's saturated upstream. $30K to run fiber to the DSLAM...if it was a fiber fed box I could probably get enough neighbors on board to swing it...but no.