One word: STARLINK
My beef with corporations not providing broadband initial hookup for free is that I already paid them for it. Every taxpayer and every phone customer in America paid and paid and paid… and honestly if the corporations had held up their end of the deal I’d be OK with that.
But it turns out that if you give rapacious corporations a bunch of money on the condition that they must do something useful, it’s cheaper for them to just use a portion of the money to buy politicians and remove the condition instead.
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won’t somebody please think of the corporations
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Plenty of people in this thread are.
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Putting a sewer system in some case could become expensive.
A condo had to ask right of way to put a sewer passing in my parent’s garden and that was a long and expensive affair because a lot of reason, not the last of the one is that the condo decided to hire a bunch of clowns to dig the trench damaging trees, fence walls and telephone poles.
To get sufficient slope they had to dig a deep trench 150 meters long.
My parents house is in the same ballpark. Was one of the first to get DSL service at 5Mbps (Now with ADSL 2+ is getting 12) because having a 2 km line on poles from the DSLAM means the signal it’s attenuated. They’re ok with that because the alternatives are either 4G/5G service or a microwave link to a tower.
The DSL is grandfathered now, because the telco they have has stopping selling DSL contracts, if people want high speed internet with them for home, they are renting a box with a SIM inside to connect to their new and shiny 5G towers.
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Ooh good point, ISP’s also have to lay drainage cables for waste data 
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True. You don’t want 4chan backing up into your buffer…
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I am reminded of when ISP’s were trying to convince everyone that there was some technical reason their connections to Netflix had to have data flowing “in” and “out” in equal amounts 
Netflix will pay Comcast to not throttle broadband. This is why Net Neutrality matters. | Boing Boing
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Time for Starlink.
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Yeah, nope.
Texas, or for that matter, most parts of the East Coast, where I spend my time in, are not really served in a way useful to me and mine:
ETA:
maybe for somebody, somewhere, but not applicable to me here now
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Yup, exactly. No one thinks about us Midwesterners either.
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Also, none of us should be giving money to Elon Musk anyway, given his decision to support fascists because he hates “woke culture”… 
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My brother is in Kansas City.
He’s got Google Fiber. He loves it.
I see that West Des Moines has Google Fiber as well.
Austin has Google Fiber.
However… I live ~20+ miles from Austin.
There’s no Google Fiber service to our neighborhood.
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
–some cyber novelist guy
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Nothing in my entire state, the states north, east, and south of me, nor the state west of me except for the one major city (something called Webpass, which seems to be slightly different but still in the Fiber family).
I’m not holding my breath.
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