We have an optical fiber pipe to a small farm in MN, installed under this sort of program a few years ago, and no one lives there. NO, get gigabit running in the urban and sub-urban areas! Sheesh!! The hogs and chickens don’t need it!!
Wrong. A lot of the rural counties are turned down by soft industry and local good jobs are lost because of no high speed internet.
Pai makes some very good points here such as dig once.
We need incentives like the ones that got the USA rural electricity during the first part of the 20th century.
The hogs and chickens might not need broadband (but then again they could) and the farmers definitely need it.
Farming is becoming data intensive like other industries. And if it comes down to a choice of which areas should get broadband first, then why shouldn’t it be solid red areas?