Maybe in another 20 years my local monopoly will adopt ̶I̶P̶v̶6̶ a technology faster than 6mbps/768k ADSL1.
This year - they rolled out fiber. So, it only took 16 years - maybe you'll get lucky.
Get a quote from your local ISP and you'll realize why it took 16 years to bring fiber to your home. I received a near $100k quote to come across the street in a former building... it gets stupid expensive stupid fast.
Fiber across a street should not be $100k.
Maybe municipal regulations make it harder than it seems. I’m curious.
At our current building, we just had fiber run from an in-ground vault already on premises (but not serving the building) into our MPOE - cost about $18k to go less than 100 yards... majority of-which didn't require boring.
My original point was, people want fast internet out in the boonies but aren't willing to pay for it. Few residential customers are going to shell out $600+ a month for fast internet... but that's what's required for the ISP to recoup their construction costs in anything resembling a reasonable time period.
Yes, at like $600+ a month over 6 years... you can do the math, it's nasty.
> Plus, the economic benefits of enabling remote production/consumption of digital services probably outweighs the cost by an order of magnitude or two
ISP's aren't a charity service. Even your municipality cannot afford to run fiber to the boonies.
10 years ago I had ADSL2+ at home (basically due to planning issues; traditionally, urban phone stuff had been hidden underground, and the telecom was having trouble getting planning for VDSL street cabs), and that felt like living in the past back then. ADSL1, today, is absurd.