• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Add telcoms to that list as well… almost a trillion was given to them to get broadband in all homes in the USA…poof

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      11 months ago

      Broadband is getting better! My in-laws who live in the boonies a few miles outside of a tiny town of 400 are jumping from ~2-4mbit/s download speed to fiber to the home, and I’ve seen broadband expansion in my extremely rural area by multiple telecom companies! It’s obviously slow going but it is happening

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        11 months ago

        That’s surprising…only way we are getting it here is from our power company which is a coop. They’re basically running it to all the homes they supply power to. Only another 2-3 years for us.

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        11 months ago

        Good to hear. We had a quick expansion of fiber a couple decades ago and it seemed like it just stopped there. You never hear about more fiber rollout