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My parents in rural America had a local ISP that did long distance wireless (highly directional antenna mounted on the house pointed at the top of the grain elevator a few miles away) but it was an unreliable 20 Mbps because the ISP wasn't interested in upgrading their equipment.

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This could have been a revolutionary way of accessing the internet before Starlink. Grain elevators are everywhere in the US Midwest. Can’t believe it wasn’t capitalized on

It is indeed all over the place, they just didn't want to upgrade equipment once it was there.

Probably margin issues.

You’d have to run fiber to all the grain elevators and you are back to the same issues.

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