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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
It looks like cable companies could bury their cables, like they do around here (and all over the Deep South, for that matter) for telephone lines . . . .
You may be a candidate for using one of the two new satellites that Alphabet (Google's parent company's name now) is supposedly going to send up that will beam down somehow Internet service all over the country.
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In a rural area, it costs about 4 times as much to run underground cable, and the more developed the area, the more it costs, by more than an order of magnitude for urban areas. I recall hearing the number it would cost to change my area from overhead to underground, and it was staggering. They stated a number that I thought sounded reasonable per mile, then it turned out that number was per FOOT. I suspect any taxpayer who really needed Internet access the <%1 of time wires got knocked down, would choose to just buy a pay-as-you-go hotspot instead.
I'm not familiar with the Google sats you mention, but if for no other reason than speed-of-light limitations, satellite is usually only a good choice when nothing else is available. I guess if google solves issues of cost, it may get more attractive as a backup.