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Topic	Rural internet options are so dire.
Esrac 03/13/21 9:05:09 PM #31:	Questionmarktarius posted... this suggests a market vacuum, to me Well, the reason ISPs don't build more infrastructure in rural areas is because there isn't much of a market there to exploit. Not enough people in enough of a concentrated territory to justify the cost of laying miles and miles of cable. I used to like in a rural part of Louisiana. Eventually the small town's workaround was to provide people with T Mobile Hotspots at the library. They could check one out for a week at a time. It kinda sucked, because there was always a waiting list, but they were free to use and they didn't enforce any data cap. <cite>Esrac posted [p:951683731] in Rural inte... [t:79347349]...</cite> <quote>Questionmarktarius posted... </cite> <quote>this suggests a market vacuum, to me</quote> Well, the reason ISPs don't build more infrastructure in rural areas is because there isn't much of a market there to exploit. Not enough people in enough of a concentrated territory to justify the cost of laying miles and miles of cable. I used to like in a rural part of Louisiana. Eventually the small town's workaround was to provide people with T Mobile Hotspots at the library. They could check one out for a week at a time. It kinda sucked, because there was always a waiting list, but they were free to use and they didn't enforce any data cap. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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