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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

5G in rural America is terrible. I can't make a phone call in my house, let alone get an internet connection. I'm not even in a particularly remote area.

There are Starlink dishes everwhere you look here because it's currently the only real option. It will probably be a while until they get some competition from Amazon.

[–] potpotato@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Because they lobbied to shutdown running fiber to your community.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago

The local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.