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A Boring Dystopia
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We tried to run fiber everywhere in the US, spent billions of dollars, but it still didn't get built.
Actually it's been working brilliantly, it's just there's so much of the United States to Unite with fiber that it's taking time and continued investment. It used to be you couldn't find fiber anywhere, now most of the farming communities I live around have at least some fiber services and it keeps growing every year. My in-laws just this month were notified they have the option to change from their 8/1mbit DSL to gigabit fiber, and they live in the boonies outside of a town of 500 nobodies ever heard of.
Seems we're getting to where the next big hurdle is less rural fiber and more suburbs. I literally have significantly better internet options after moving to a small town of 10000 or so than my parents do in the suburbs of the capital city of the state.
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 https://newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm