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GreenPL8 t1_j8l594u wrote

Reply to comment by jacob22c in SpaceX satellites over Addison County tonight by thedvlandgod

For real. Fiber has been around for how long? And we still aren't connected?

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SmoothSlavperator t1_j8mny26 wrote

"The Golden Mile" problem. There's a certain "Break even" point with efficiency vs population density involving cost per user to maintain. Pulling numbers out of the air to explain, it comes down to something like the provider having to spend $10k/yr(probably more than that) to run a switches and repeaters and string a line to get Bob, who lives 5 miles away from anyone else, his internet that's only paying in $75 a month. Whereas if you had 100 subscribers all on top of eachother, your marginal cost per subscriber all gets absorbed.

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GreenPL8 t1_j8mv1s7 wrote

Yes. So why complain about SpaceX when we've failed to deliver for our own residents?

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SmoothSlavperator t1_j8n4mgf wrote

Because laying hard line into rural areas isn't viable and we don't have the means to launch our own satellites.

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