Even a town I used to live in with Donald voters, more than half the town couldn’t get speed over 5 Mbps - they had to use Satellite. And the other half? We had over 800 Mbps. 2 years after Covid, the other town finally has it. Ridiculous.
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Rural voters overwhelmingly voted for this. I have no sympathy. I'm downloading shit fast as fuck. And I'm using my symetric fiber to seed 24/7 the following torrents: CDC data removed from gov websites, data leak from Patriot Front (a local fascist movement in USA), and war crimes committed by IDF in Gaza. Plus a lot of porn.
Cheers, shitbags! You got what you voted for.
Frontier trounced all over Xfinity here because of this program. I now have fiber vs 300mbps (400 plan). So many blue dots around WV but the koolaid is in the water.
Could u rephrase this in a language normal people can understand?
Frontier new kid in town, big company out money as people switch. Faster internet. Republicans dominate the state but not everyone is mindless and few leftists/centrists dot the state.
Which big companies lose money? Frontier or other companies?
People switch where? To frontier or away from frontier?
Who has faster internet? Frontier or frontier competitors?
What does it matter that there are leftists and centrists in the state? How does this have anything to do with the comment u writing about?
The funniest part is that it's his voters lol
The news will probably never reach them.
Not at broadband speeds, that's for sure.
And if it does, they'll thank him for helping them to disconnect.
Yeah but does Iran have nukes? Checkmate!
I DoN’t CaRe wHaT yOu sAy. NiRaN MoST DefFiNiTeLY PRoBAblY HaS NUkEs!
Well, I'm honestly not convinced they don't. I mean, with renewables popping everywhere and providing a surplus of clean renewable non-geopolitical electricity, why would you pursue nuclear for the energy? You don't even need to build an actual nuclear explosive, you could just make endless dirty bombs.
Iran could cover itself in solar and wind and there you go. They'd have all the electricity they need, could probably build most of the shit themselves too, and have not just plausible, but total, nuclear deniability.
If I ran had nukes, the US wouldn't be bombing it as we speak.
Don't think it matters when Israel's sugar bully is always there.
Funds allocated throughout the years have NEVER actually gone to providing/increasing broadband in rural areas.
Not true, just got 2Gb fiber in rural WI through a federal grant allocated 2 years ago.
Not entirely, my ISP is a family owned regional cable company and they took the grant and have rolled out fiber across multiple counties.
I get what you're saying about the mega corps, yeah they just pocket a lot of the money. But the smaller ISPs are being smart and investing in their infrastructure to be able to complete.
Frontier took the money and said, "Watch us trounce the big boy monopoly here"
Never say never. There are actually several areas where I've seen fiber build out from government grants.
That said, they are EXCEPTIONALLY rare and typically scumbag ISPs pocket the money with no consequences, since nobody who writes these laws sets up consequences for failing to deliver.
I got mine, even though it’s 1 gb down 300 mb up, but it’s still rural fiber.
taxes subsidized it and we get to pay extra https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-fiber-optic-internet/
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