Frontier, Lumen, and Windstream are all pretty much the same on this. They all were built on a base of ancient POTS infrastructure and do the minimum required t

Frontier, Lumen, and Windstream are all pretty much the same on this. They all were built on a base of ancient POTS infrastructure and do the minimum required to continue collecting universal service fund subsidies from the government for those accounts. All three are mainly focused on high value backbone and business services, with residential customer growth being mainly cable and fiber in areas that are dense and affluent (relatively speaking). Low income rural areas are of little interest to them even though that's how they were founded. Should the subsidy from the universal service fund ever go away, they'll quickly stop selling ADSL service in those areas. In the long run, both the users and the government probably would be better off if everyone switched to Starlink.