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> Frontier doesn’t offer slow DSL to rural areas because they’re rolling in cash from having no competitors. They actually do. The reason they’re going bankrup
by tw04 5y ago
> Frontier doesn’t offer slow DSL to rural areas because they’re rolling in cash from having no competitors.
They actually do. The reason they’re going bankrupt is because competitors have started showing up due to the Connect America Fund causing them to lose customers in droves.
Simultaneously they took funds themselves and didn’t bother using them to upgrade infrastructure.
Source: previous frontier customer who couldn’t leave fast enough. Also convinced every single neighbor to do the same, even the ones who thought it was “fine” and wanted to be “loyal”.
- kube-system 5y agoRural broadband (non-satellite) has always required more infrastructure per subscriber. More revenue, like through the subsidies you mention, are the only way to fix the problem. The lack of competition in rural areas is more of a symptom of the inherent infrastructure problem, rather than the cause. The Connect America Fund is also known as the "universal service high-cost program"