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by throw0101d
74 days ago
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> The real reason for the “cartels” in the US is because of the cost of infrastructure versus the subscribers cost. Because the United States is so large there are only a few companies that can create the infrastructure required to service large area areas with fiber. The "US is large" argument is non-sense. 40% of the US population lives in a coastal county: * https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/economics-and-demog... And two-thirds of the population lives with-in 100 miles of the border: * https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/your-rights-bord... The US population is fairly concentrated. And even if it wasn't, looking at history, the US managed to bring electrical cables to just about every household in the country, and later telephone cables. If those two things could be done in the 1900s, why can't fibre be done in the 2000s? |
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We had to pass acts of congress to pay for last mile electrical infrastructure for those who were truly out in the boonies and poor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
We paid a shitload of money to various ISPs to do exactly the same thing for internet, multiple times, and then just let them.... not.