General Discussion

... so far as wire/cable/fiber infrastructure goes.

The monopolies are mapping out their turfs. I doubt we'll ever get fiber here, that would require too much digging and they wouldn't get enough customers to justify it. We'll get 5G instead.

I receive postcards in the mail from the major wireless carriers promoting 5G, but so far responding to them only gets a "not in your area yet" and supposedly puts me on a waiting list.

One of my siblings lives in a rural area that had minimal phone service twenty years ago, they were just one step up from the old hand crank telephones, 1950's technology, and no wireless. Then a bunch of very wealthy people began to move into the area, with their hobby farms and ranches, and now they've got high speed fiber internet that rivals anything you'd find in wealthy urban neighborhoods.

A large fraction of my neighbors rely entirely upon their cell phones and broadcast television for their communication needs. If they have school age children or are low income senior citizens they may qualify for low cost internet plans.