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by xeromal 1389 days ago
Yeah, seems some rural communities are getting fiber faster. My house in northern GA far from Atlanta has symmetrical(?) fiber. It gets 1000 up and 1000 down.
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A big part of the reason for this is that rural areas/exurbs get heavily, heavily subsidized.

A few years ago my local ISP (Cincinnati bell) literally stopped their profitable roll out of fiber in the city for the better part of a year. They got a huge subsidy to put fiber in the exurbs around the city, and shifted all of their people to those areas. Go figure.