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[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 year 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

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

They just won't be able to call it broadband.

[-] poprocks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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 3 points 1 year 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.

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