We live in a rural area (but only 16 miles from the nearest city) and have copper. We really hope the infrastructure bill will bring real internet to us in our lifetime.
Comment on FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps
popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I did telecom work about 5 years ago
It was shocking the amount of area that depends on a low-quality copper wire infrastructure.
I don’t know if that changed in 5 years, but companies are going to have a hard time getting that replaced nationwide
poprocks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
bamboo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If congress passes a bill to improve internet infrastructure, it will be a 10s of billions hand out to ISPs that in turn will do little to nothing to actually improve their infrastructure. Just like when they did it in the 90s to get fiber to most Americans.
shasta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They already got billions from the government to upgrade their infrastructure. It’s on them if they didn’t actually use the money for that by now.
White_Flight@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would think that per FCC this requirement has loop holes and the minimum 100 Mbps is most likely for only broadband not dial up, so many telecommunication companies will be except
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They just won’t be able to call it broadband.