Google was making it work before incumbent companies sued and blocked them[0]. The problem with broadband in the US is not technical, and it's not solely dista

Google was making it work before incumbent companies sued and blocked them[0]. The problem with broadband in the US is not technical, and it's not solely distances or the nature of rural spaces. It's political and economic. We managed to deliver electricity and then telephone to everyone with a push from the federal government, we could do it again. But now AT&T, Comcast and Time-Warner are too powerful, so we end up with ground-based telescopes suffering instead. 0. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160314/09374733901/isps-are-blocking-google-fibers-access-to-utility-poles-california.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160314/09374733901/isps-...