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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2026
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The whole point of Starlink was to bring broadband to rural areas... The places telephone and cable companies didn't want to build modern infrastructure for.
At the beginning you couldn't even sign up for Starlink near cities.
That's what regulations are for. We let them have their regional monopolies, and they build out service everywhere, even the nonprofitable builds. Then we just stopped doing that when the bribes got big enough, and this problem came into being. All those shacks in the middle of nowhere have phone lines because of this regulation, which is totally still on the books, by the way.