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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by jpindar on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:46PM (#13908874)
For one thing, cable TV companies (who are the only practical ISP in many areas) don't want competition and have no reason to do it themselves.
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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by gwright on Sunday March 19, 2017 @05:56PM (#13909890)
It is worse than that. Of course they don't want competition but the the monopoly services areas are an artifact of legislative deal making. So the current situation is codified in law and would need to be changed.

Monopoly service areas for universal service offering was the deal.

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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by ChuckMcM on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:20PM (#13910725)
This is a huge barrier, there is a lot of 'rent' money being doled out to 'sole providers'
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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by ianai on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:07PM (#13908985)
They're not going to exist in every locality. My relatives are still on satellite and dial up.
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