Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink
aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They were never building that, let’s be honest.
Every single time the land line ISPs have gotten money for rural broadband, they use it for something else and don’t build anything. Starlink actually built a network that works. Many places have gotten decent 5G home internet too.
I have been promised fiber for over a decade yet the only wired connection available is a DSL network that’s been so poorly maintained that it barely even functions.
Do you mean works or falls out of the sky routinely to litter the earth? We build lots as far as smaller ISPs go. You just don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.
Starlink is designed to demise on re-entry. It’s a core criteria.
What does that mean to you exactly? All the ones that burnt up early weren’t designed for that lmao
This is proof of why Direct Democracy is better than “Representative” “Democracy”
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was basically up to the states this time around, they could allocate BEAD funds more or less as they wanted and absolutely build fiber out to the vast majority of residences (look at North Dakota, it’s evidently possible) through models like municipal fiber.
Ultimately it’s a political issue more than anything else, Americans just can’t get anything done anymore, politicians would rather enrich themselves and voters only care about the culture war.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wish there was more municipal fiber. It’s absolutely insane that the big ISPs fight it and often win.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
In capitalist America, laws decide you!