> the awful truth is that a lot of people would rather pay $45/month for 1 Mbps DSL than pay $50/month for 1 Gbps fiber I have never met these people, and my

> the awful truth is that a lot of people would rather pay $45/month for 1 Mbps DSL than pay $50/month for 1 Gbps fiber I have never met these people, and my sample includes four grandmas that are 70 years old. Quality of videocalls so important that 1 Mbps internet is worth $0 to them. Gaming is leisure, that's different - some people buy $1000 golf clubs, and $5,000 bicycles, some don't know what to do with them. > I mean, the people in my town could afford 100% fiber optic internet, but the phone company can't afford to stop using the copper network when it can still charge people premium prices for subprime service. Sounds like a monopoly has your town by the balls, that's not a healthy state of capitalism / free market. These "artificial scarcity" techniques are cancerous tumours, if we allow them to fester and grow they will bring down the whole system.