rdonson
Premium Pilot
It was a joke - based on the not-at-all-funny state of the UK comms industry. How does it work in the US? I would have though it was even less economic to roll fibre out to many of the seriously remote homesteads in the west and north.
Many rural locations even in the eastern US don’t have access to the internet let alone fiber. Rural locations are pretty much dependent on telephone providers and limited by distance from the nearest CO. Some small communities have banded together to get a microwave feed that can then be provided to individual homes and businesses.
Satellite internet is available but quite pricey.
Telephone service is mandated and subsidized by the federal government. Internet is not.
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