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Don’t live in a rural area then. With the money it takes to connect a few homes in the middle of nowhere to the high-speed network, you can easily equip many more with fiber in the middle of a decently sized city.


Which is kind of funny because here in rural Canada we have access to fibre in farmhouses, but if you look to the neighbouring cities it is almost non-existant in residential areas.


> Don’t live in a rural area then.

So I should choose my preferred living place on the premise of maximizing profitability for my ISP? I don't think so.


No, but you should assume that your ISP will choose it's fiber/DSL/whatever rollout strategy to maximise it's own profitability.


And even if it gets subsidies (which is the case here), I would expect it to spend the public’s money well instead of building kilometres upon kilometres of wiring to connect those three farm houses in the Black Forest.




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