These numbers are totally not credible.

And taxpayers funded the expansion by giving providers Trillions (with a fucking T) in subsidies.

With an asterisk - "broadband" is defined as 25mbps down and 3mbps up. Thanks to this a lot of cellular connections are counted (which are absolutely not a replacement for landlines).

Taxpayers funding the creation of infrastructure… what a lunatic idea! /s

I see a lot of penetration when I utilize my home broadband internet.

Not a utility though. What a joke.

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But it's not classified as a "utility"

And yet we both know that’s exactly what it is.

...which is owned by private companies such as comcast and at&t

How unlike our other utilities, famously always owned and operated by state entities. /s

I wish my penetration was at 90%

TIL I don't even have broadband. 16~14 down and 1~1.5 up.

They said just the tip tho

Having installed and repaired the infrastructure (copper wires and fiber) for an large Internet Service Provider (Death Star) I can say categorically that home broadband penetration in West Michigan is no where near 90%. Our competition avoids the same areas we did; they could make money, but not enough to satisfy Investors.

There are large swathes that have mediocre cell service and people are stuck with satellite Internet service which is very expensive, slow, and has restrictive data caps.

90% penetration is a ludicrous claim and is reached by “creatively” defining broadband. It’s a joke.

Can confirm, currently getting penetrated by a major telecom.

They need to redefine broadband. Better upload and download speeds as a baseline

Comcast doesn’t count

According to a bogus study by lying liars who lie a lot, all the time

Our semi-rural area has NO good broadband, yet the lying liars claim we are "served"

>which are absolutely not a replacement for landlines

YES!!! This is true

As Amy said, not a good enough reason for the use of the word.

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Satellite doesn’t count. Neither does “ya, here’s 20gb a month but after that you get 56k”.

Living in the rural north muskegon and best we got is 9mbps Frontier dsl. Hoping at least Starlink expands more soon. At this point I'll pay the extra to have over 50mbps hopefully.

Why not? I switched from Att DSL to T Mobile Home Internet and am very happy

With Hughes, that's 15 gigs thank you very much.

I was hoping to make that same switch but it didn’t work out for me. The speeds were terrible. I have a buddy who lives in a remote area in the mountains but he is right next to a tower and it works flawlessly for him. I live in the city and I guess stupid nimbies don’t look seeing towers here, so it’s terrible where I live

What kills me about the investors part is they're like "we need more money" and all of the country is like "so how about more wires laid and internet to places that can use it or are underserved, see more customers." and the government hands them money like "here go and get internet in more houses" and the investors somehow land on "no no, uh we'll just tier the internet, say there isn't enough internet and change the prices to be higher."

Because all wireless Internet technologies, including Starlink, have a very finite amount of shared bandwidth.

You likely are happy switching from DSL to T-Mobile 5G or even LTE, but if everyone around you did the same, you'd be back to DSL speeds.

Fiber to the home is the only solution that doesn't have shared bandwidth and fast speeds.

bullshit, destroy this journalist