“I think the objective is to make high speed internet more available in rural areas. In some of those areas, satellite internet is just about the only option.”
Yep.... such is the rural life. What confounds me is you can have a land line yet no internet is available via that land line. Makes absolutely no sense.
Many places you can still get dialup, but I’m not sure it would be worth it.
4G would be much better.
https://www.dialup4less.com/texas.html
Copper landlines have very limited ability to support anything faster than 56kbps dial-up internet, which in this Year of Grace 2023 is hopelessly obsolete. DSL requires fairly short runs between the switching station and the customer's modem. In rural Texas, that's going to be a problem. For many years, I used DSL in rural WV ... it was a bit dodgy on a good day. Frontier finally ran fiber out our way ... it's a massive improvement.