Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?!
IDK, Russia is not the most technically developed country, so if even far Russian villages have fiber, then West for shure have at least same level of internetisation. I don't see any problem to have fiber along the power lines. If you have mains power in rural area, then you certainly have to have fiber on power poles. Fiber is dirt cheap and don't need any maintenance at all, if only it was not torn by fallen tree.
One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job
Wait a second. You mean internet companies need grants to do their business? Isn't it profitable to throw fiber line to a village over existing power line poles and have permanent money flow from it? Even if you connect 10 houses with $10 monthly payments in a village 10km away from nearby optics muff, then your fiber will be paid off in less than a year. Here, most providers just take around $100 for hookup per house and that instantly covers all their installation costs.
I can't imagine anything cheaper and more reliable with lower maintenance cost than fiber line.
Of course there exists villages somewhere in Siberia or far North without electricity and even normal roads, hundreds of miles from any infrastructure but it is an exception and mostly it is a settlements of indigenous nomad tribes. There are also abandoned villages, but as soon as somebody settled there, electric company is ready to connect it back and so internet providers goes after soon.
Even most dachas (vacation housing villages) which populated only at summer time, have decent internet connectivity today.
What are you talking about? How throwing a dozen miles of cheap as dirt fiber could be something problematic for any developed country?
As far as I know, rural settlements in US and Canada have electricity since early 1920s. So there is powerline poles to every village. Doing business is simplier in US than in most countries in the world. So I see no any problems to make money on providing internet in rural areas. And making money is what US citizens are good in.
I can't get in mind how it could be, when there is a huge barrels of money laying all over US and nobody want to take them.
Fiber is dirt cheap, there is a lot of used telecom equipment on the market for pennies, to hook fiber on poles you need just few guys with hands in right place, a truck and a ladder. Some insignificant investments and you have constant profit for decades without much maintenance.
You miss. I live deep in a forest. :)
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
This isn't even new.
IDK, Russia is not the most technically developed country, so if even far Russian villages have fiber, then West for shure have at least same level of internetisation. I don't see any problem to have fiber along the power lines. If you have mains power in rural area, then you certainly have to have fiber on power poles. Fiber is dirt cheap and don't need any maintenance at all, if only it was not torn by fallen tree.
Wait a second. You mean internet companies need grants to do their business? Isn't it profitable to throw fiber line to a village over existing power line poles and have permanent money flow from it? Even if you connect 10 houses with $10 monthly payments in a village 10km away from nearby optics muff, then your fiber will be paid off in less than a year. Here, most providers just take around $100 for hookup per house and that instantly covers all their installation costs.
I can't imagine anything cheaper and more reliable with lower maintenance cost than fiber line.
Of course there exists villages somewhere in Siberia or far North without electricity and even normal roads, hundreds of miles from any infrastructure but it is an exception and mostly it is a settlements of indigenous nomad tribes. There are also abandoned villages, but as soon as somebody settled there, electric company is ready to connect it back and so internet providers goes after soon.
Even most dachas (vacation housing villages) which populated only at summer time, have decent internet connectivity today.
What are you talking about? How throwing a dozen miles of cheap as dirt fiber could be something problematic for any developed country?
America has been pretending to be a developed country for a long time.
As far as I know, rural settlements in US and Canada have electricity since early 1920s. So there is powerline poles to every village. Doing business is simplier in US than in most countries in the world. So I see no any problems to make money on providing internet in rural areas. And making money is what US citizens are good in.
I can't get in mind how it could be, when there is a huge barrels of money laying all over US and nobody want to take them.
Fiber is dirt cheap, there is a lot of used telecom equipment on the market for pennies, to hook fiber on poles you need just few guys with hands in right place, a truck and a ladder. Some insignificant investments and you have constant profit for decades without much maintenance.