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jday1959 t1_j1bbkk4 wrote

Having installed and repaired the infrastructure (copper wires and fiber) for an large Internet Service Provider (Death Star) I can say categorically that home broadband penetration in West Michigan is no where near 90%. Our competition avoids the same areas we did; they could make money, but not enough to satisfy Investors.

There are large swathes that have mediocre cell service and people are stuck with satellite Internet service which is very expensive, slow, and has restrictive data caps.

90% penetration is a ludicrous claim and is reached by “creatively” defining broadband. It’s a joke.

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Vestreza t1_j1cze5d wrote

Living in the rural north muskegon and best we got is 9mbps Frontier dsl. Hoping at least Starlink expands more soon. At this point I'll pay the extra to have over 50mbps hopefully.

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All_The_Nolloway t1_j1ea48o wrote

What kills me about the investors part is they're like "we need more money" and all of the country is like "so how about more wires laid and internet to places that can use it or are underserved, see more customers." and the government hands them money like "here go and get internet in more houses" and the investors somehow land on "no no, uh we'll just tier the internet, say there isn't enough internet and change the prices to be higher."

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