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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Not a good idea in the USA unless a law is passed forcing internet providers to run broadband or fiber optic to all rural areas (Like the Telecommunications Act of 1934 did with telephone landline service). The digital divide is already severely disadvantaging folks living in places with no high speed internet available. Most of those areas also don’t have good cellular service and their internet option is limited to slow, expensive, weather sensitive, and data capped satellite service.
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The Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program (BEAD) encourages deployment to rural areas though doesn't require it. That program has been in the news lately.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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