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Here in Canada's smallest province Bell has repeatedly promised for 20 years or more to build the infrastructure for better rural Internet. They've stalled, tak

Here in Canada's smallest province Bell has repeatedly promised for 20 years or more to build the infrastructure for better rural Internet. They've stalled, taken government funding, occasionally make mediocre upgrades of their barely usable service. Now tired of waiting rural residents are installing Starlink at about 50 to 100 installs per week (anecdotal). Rural residents are going from "up to 1Mbps" (and poor support) to 250Mbps down/50Mbps up 50ms latency. By the end of the year Bell is going to be wiped out in rural areas. Like you say even if it's 1Gbps and $35 it's just not worth it. Bell is a horrible company to deal with.

genocidicbunny 5y ago
> By the end of the year Bell is going to be wiped out in rural areas. Seems like that might play into Bell's hand though. They've successfully grifted billions of CAD to build stuff out in rural areas, haven't done so, and can now with a straight face say "See, they don't want it!"
- Waterluvian 5y ago
  That just means the grift ends. It’s not really favourable to Bell.
  - genocidicbunny 5y ago
    It is favourable because they still get to keep that money. If you robbed a bank, and when they caught you, they let you keep the money and walk away, you'd call that pretty favourable.