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Fibre rolls in a dense city have different economics from somewhere with just a few people per square mile.

• defrost 23d ago
  and yet Western Australia, 3x size of Texas with less than a million people in 1980 had a telephone network that covered the population. The "sums are different for rural V urban" doesn't make leaky tin cans a better solution over fibre to population, particularly given the downsides.
  • db48x 23d ago
    Pretty sure we achieved that level of coverage here in the US a decade or more earlier than that. A lot of those same rural customers still rely on the telephone system for Internet access. They might be able to get DSL now, but the speeds are going to be low; often just a few hundred kilobits per second.
    • defrost 23d ago
      So pull modern fibre; as should be done.
      • hvb2 23d ago
        And who pays for those miles of fiber? That one customer, because he chose to live there? I assume you understand that it that's the case, Starlink is a much better option as it won't cost them 5 figures upfront
      • db48x 22d ago
        This is beside the point. Starlink exists and provides excellent service to customers who have no alternatives.