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I live 5 minutes from a grocery store, 10 minutes from a town of 50k people. Hardly remote by US standards. There is no cell coverage, and the only internet opt
by rozap 4y ago
I live 5 minutes from a grocery store, 10 minutes from a town of 50k people. Hardly remote by US standards. There is no cell coverage, and the only internet option plugs into a phone jack. From where I'm sitting, that spending didn't translate into much.
Edit: realized you were speaking in future tense. So I guess we'll see how it shakes out.
- google234123 4y ago50k is a lot of people, I'm surprised. At least when I've been doing long trips across the US, I've seen billboards adverting fiber internet in a lot of the tiny towns around the interstates.
- tluyben2 4y agoJikes, you would think that would easier to fix; in my rural EU village of a few 100 people there has been fiber for a while now and that's quite high up in the mountains with, otherwise, bad infrastructure (I didn't think they would ever get there 10 years ago). From the village they use copper & radio to transfer it to all the houses in the mountains. And cell coverage is everywhere anyway (that's more because of the mountains & hills; easy to put antenna's on all the peaks which reach everywhere). Guess that town must be really far from everything maybe on flat land?
- zbrozek 4y agoI live within a 15 minute drive of both Google's and Apple's headquarters but was in the same situation - no broadband available. I organized my neighbors, we trenched, laid fiber, and now we all have 10g/10g service.
- rozap 4y agoHow many people did you need to wrangle to get this to happen? I saw a Comcast truck driving down my street a few months ago. I chased him down and asked if they were putting in broadband, and he said "No, I'm just checking the line levels, but you are the fourth person on this street today to chase me down and ask me the same question..."
- zbrozek 4y ago22 parcels passed, 15 takers for service. Took us about 6-8 months.