• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    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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        4 days ago

        The local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.

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        3 days 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.