>With satellite internet from starlink (and I think amazon is attempting their own version?) I don't see how running internet over wires to rural housing could

>With satellite internet from starlink (and I think amazon is attempting their own version?) I don't see how running internet over wires to rural housing could ever be seen as a good expenditure of money. There are two perspectives on this. From the user's standpoint, when I finally wired up my house and we were no longer using wifi, all the streaming video was just flawless, no more stuttering. And I was only sharing that air with devices in my own house and the two closest neighbors. I wouldn't want to have to share it with all of North America. The other perspective is from the point of view of the ISPs themselves (the ones not Starlink). Can they pay off the cost of the infrastructure, and then make a profit? And it turns out that they can. Just not a quick one. If they can't profit on it this quarter, many see no incentive. Someone needs to light a fire under their asses. These are both obvious, and if you "don't see how", maybe you need to look.