• Patches@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    You don’t even have to go extremely rural to get no internet choices.

    I am 20 minutes, or 15 miles, from a town of 150,000 people down 1 of the 4 major roads leading out of town. Without cellular or starlink we would have nothing.

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      11 months ago

      Right, but the point is, instead of going to Starlink that taxpayer money could be used to get access to where you’re at.

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        11 months ago

        Comcast will take the taxpayer money, run a shit 5mbps line to the rural area, charge you out the ass for it and pocket the difference from the subsidies.

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        11 months ago

        They already did that…we gave the telecoms almost 1 trillion dollars…we do not need to be giving them more.