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Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout by amazon2 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:14PM (#12800022)
People still live in the countryside. Rural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness.

If your aim is to provide broadband to all, you'll have to build there too. Sweden aims to do 100 Mbps to 90% of the population by 2020. Can't do that by just covering urban areas.

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Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout by refurb on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:54PM (#12802791)
Rural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness

Try driving through Wyoming some time (on a highway!). You can easy drive for an hour or two and there is nothing but BLM (gov't) land all around you. No one lives there.

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Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout by WillPostForFood on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @07:33PM (#12801716)
Apparently you can get to 86% by just covering urban areas.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS

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