General Discussion

Even the PBS stations have been corrupted.

We're probably not going to get fiber internet in our neighborhood anytime soon. Both the cable television and phone lines are late 1970's direct-buried-in-ground technology, no conduits. AT&T doesn't seem to be interested in their hard-wired infrastructure any more and is trying to switch anyone who has a landline/DSL to 5G wireless. Comcast/Xfinity, now considering themselves a monopoly, really doesn't give a shit about their hapless customers who keep paying their bills by habit for very mediocre service.

My wife and I had relatively high speed internet service from third party providers before Pacific Bell or Comcast were even offering internet service to residential customers. My wife needed that for her work. AT&T stopped supporting our third party wired connection more than a year ago and we were lucky enough, our home being on a hill, that we could replace it with fixed wireless.

5G would work too. I simply won't do business with Comcast.

Bringing high speed internet to everyone in the U.S.A. would be a trivial endeavor compared to the rural electrification and telephone projects of FDR's New Deal.