Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

• uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We already have physical lines.

  Businesses and governments aren’t going to invest in digging and laying down more cables to give people in rural America access to fiber.

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  • darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They actually have invested multiple times. Problem is the companies they give the money to just pocket it and don’t update their infrastructure. Give this money to the local community or coop owned fiber operators. Stop giving money to these huge corps that don’t need it and fund the small coop and community run fiber operators.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fibre deployment is getting cheaper and easier. Both in terms of cost of materials and in the equipment and labour skills.

    It’s also much more secure from interference and disruption.

    For populated areas, there’s zero justification to rollout wireless over fibre lines. And most major cities already have fibre in most, or many, areas. And the thing with fibre is that the physical lines can be used to deploy faster speeds with upgraded endpoints.

    Tech bros would have you think physical connections aren’t a good choice anymore, because laying down fibre isn’t sexy enough for that VC money.

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    • uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok.

      What about everyone else?

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      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s still worthwhile.

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