[mcny]

On the other end of the spectrum, why does the federal government spend money on the "interstate" highway in Hawaii? Why does every state (even Wyoming) have two senators?

I think we should have use common sense here. Fiber deployment is expensive but it is probably worth pulling fiber at least to every post office in these United States.

[wool_gather]

Do you literally mean internet access in the post office building, or are you using that as a metonym for population centers?

[mcny]

> Do you literally mean internet access in the post office building, or are you using that as a metonym for population centers?

I didn't even know the word metonym but you said it better than I could have. Yes, I mean population centers. I mean we have to be reasonable. If someone moves to the South Pole and demands we run fiber there, we might have to say no. I don't know where we exactly draw the line though. My understanding is that there is a lot of "dark fiber" criss crossing the country that can be "lit up" so the "long haul" isn't so much of a problem as the "last mile". I could be wrong though. I don't know much about these things.

[wool_gather]

Makes sense, thanks for expanding!