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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

5G in rural America is terrible. I can't make a phone call in my house, let alone get an internet connection. I'm not even in a particularly remote area.

There are Starlink dishes everwhere you look here because it's currently the only real option. It will probably be a while until they get some competition from Amazon.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Because they lobbied to shutdown running fiber to your community.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    there is 100s of miles of fiber spools just sitting for years at a utility maintenance yard here. the provider that was doing the work to expand services just took the rest of the free money and split.

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