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Somebody should have spoken for fiber everywhere 15 years ago rather than telling us rural people to drop dead.
by PaulHoule 8mo ago
Somebody should have spoken for fiber everywhere 15 years ago rather than telling us rural people to drop dead.
- cpburns2009 8mo agoExactly this. A family member of mine had no good option before Starlink. Dial-up is obsolete, traditional satellite internet was not available due to some angle of a valley or treeline. A 4G signal booster can only do so much with a poor signal.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoWouldn't mandated fibre for everyone be considered 'communism' in rural US? I mean, even public healthcare is vilified.
- ProllyInfamous 8mo agoI live in one of the few US regions where our electric provider also provides fiber internet to every single customer (EPB, Chattanooga). Even ramshackel cabins in the middle of nowhere can get gigabit internet (25+ syncronous, actually). ISP giants have effectively lobbied to prevent this from expanding outside of the electric-provider's supply area, despite ready availability and demand. It's a racket.
- metalman 8mo agorural here also. ridiculous to suggest that mega sattelite fleets can be recalled now. little know fact about high tension power lines: they have has fibre in the core for mreo than 25 years, but in most cases are left unused, per contracts with the telecoms ie: massive price fixing deals more?, look into the truely surreal world of overlapping rights of way for power, phone, roads, water,rail etc that are spread and smeared into blurry mess that EATS MONEY, that then dissapears again. the satellites just fly right over all that.