[phpisthebest]

>>>You did it before for electricity

I huge part of Rural America Electricity is run by Coop's today, often non-profit anyway. Various attempts have been tried for these Coop's to also provide internet services including using Internet Over Power Lines technology, they all fail for some reason.

Also with Telephone and electric build out we did not have the levels of regulatory capture we do today. The US Tax Payer has spent BILLIONS on "broadband" roll out programs to pay for the infrastructure that should have bought fiber to every home including rural areas, the money was wasted on "Fixed Wireless broadband" and other schemes where by the ISP's more or less just pocket the money and there was no accountability by the federal agencies in charge of these programs, largely because they knew they had fat executive jobs at that ISP coming to them

Your implication that government is the solution to this problem by paying for the infrastructure is not based in reality, as government is the problem. Government and government corruption is what stopped fiber from already being a reality.

[nfriedly]

Where my wife used to live, there was a telephone cooperative. At the time, they offered DSL internet, but it now looks like they offer fiber also: https://www.mdtc.net/services/internet/

[gessha]

Some of the coops are mismanaged. I saw an article about a takeover of an incompetent coop management board that resulted in service improvement.

Like everything, it takes political will and community work to keep services responsible and reliable.

[rascul]

> I huge part of Rural America Electricity is run by Coop's today, often non-profit anyway. Various attempts have been tried for these Coop's to also provide internet services including using Internet Over Power Lines technology, they all fail for some reason.

They seem to be doing fine in Mississippi.

[KerrAvon]

Yes; we need to address regulatory capture. That can be done. Saying ‘better things aren’t possible’ isn’t the solution.

[phpisthebest]

I never said better things are not possible, this disconnect here is that despite all of recorded American history proven other ways people still believe we just need to "elect to right people" to government to fix everything wrong everywhere all problems in society

When in reality power corrupts and by giving power to government you corrupt anyone that enters the profession.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. --- Ronald Reagan

Better things are possible they just do not come from government, they come in-spite of government