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by reportingsjr 1400 days ago
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.