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Buried fiber is never going to happen for the rural folks serviced by Starlink. It's hard to get companies to put fiber down in well populated suburbs, getting them out into the country is pure wishful thinking, especially if you're only talking about a billion dollars.



Do we have to bury it? Why not just put it up on transmission lines?

It seems weird to me that we can run Cable TV to fairly remote locations but not fiber.


Not sure what your definition of fairly remote is, but these places absolutely don’t have cable TV.


We can! Many rural electric co-ops run fiber internet on their power poles.


Nation wide buried fiber is never going to be profitable, so why bother involving the for-profit corporations in getting it up and running?

Plus they've shown themselves to be not trust worthy after they stole previous funds for fiber expansion.




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