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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Land cables are not that expensive.

Unless your population is incredibly sparse, land fiber or adsl cables are the way to go.

I live in a region which have 25 hab/km^2 which is one of the lowest in the world. And we have a massive cable implementation that covers more than 95% of the population.

The problem is money. And if you don’t have money for cable you don’t have money for XVIII century internet carrying blimps.

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foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Land are not that expensive but they are in charge of the State, things like balloons or Starlink are the charge of the user and the company, the State doesn’t get the money but doesn’t need to build infrastructures

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- Robaque@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  and the company
  
  Surely the company would never be just as authoritarian as the state!
  
  ~ [cue anti-consumer subscription models and user policies]
  
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  - BelatedPeacock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If nothing else, at least companies can’t force you to pay for their services at gunpoint (yet).
    
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    Robaque@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They can use the state to do that for them
    
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