Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

• aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you’re pulling 5G you’re not remote.

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• misophist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brother, we have wildly different definitions of “nowhere” if you get 5G. When I lived in a rural shithole in the US, I had to drive 100 miles to start picking up 5G signals (though that was just before the pandemic, so maybe 5G coverage has improved greatly in the past 3 years).

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  • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Closest town is 55km away

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    • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shit man, I used to commute almost that exact distance each way. Anything under triple digits is practically in-town in many places.

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      • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah me too, untill COVID and the digital acceleration to WFH

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