It's not even rural. It's less than 3 hours from 3 major cities (and within an hour of a minor one), in a popular weekend vacation spot, and yeah, it's pretty mountainous but it's also got plenty of infrastructure already.

It is amazing how our traditional telcos have failed us. Buildout of broadband was fully-funded by the government in the 90s, and it flopped; They took the money and never built anything. These communities still do not have access to reliable broadband as it was defined then.

I so agree with you.

Comcast could have built out service in so many of our current residential areas, but chose not to. For no apparent reason but that it cost capex.

There was so much funding to extend internet access to rural areas. None of the major vendors engaged these funds and used them to provide capacity.

If Starlink succeeds, I'll raise a glass to the memory of Comcast and others.