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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by Retric on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:28PM (#13942625)
We are talking about less than 1/1,000th of our current GDP so no, it's not a question of having a larger GDP. GDP is simply not the problem, it's local monopolies that keep getting funded to fix a problem have no incentive to actually fix the problem.

Remember, we rolled out copper wire to every home with a far smaller GDP, doing the same for fiber is relatively speaking a smaller investment.

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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by rayiner on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:39PM (#13942752)
I'm asking about the economic benefits to GDP of rolling out broadband to the places that don't yet have it, considering that they can get satellite.
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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by Retric on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:42PM (#13943452)
There are a lot of things you can't do on satellite internet right now. VOIP is the most obvious example.
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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by comex on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:24PM (#13945274)
SpaceX's planned satellite network could fix that eventually… if it's ever actually constructed.
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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by greglindahl on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:49PM (#13945416)
OneWeb is in the lead, they actually have funding and launch contracts.
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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by jdshaf on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:52PM (#13946228)
I agree that OneWeb is in the lead, but playing devils advocate: SpaceX has funding (Fidelity/Google) and rockets...
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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by gnopgnip on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:36PM (#13946390)
Hughesnet and Exede satellite internet both offer a voip service.
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