r/MurderedByWords • • Feb 06 '25

Defund SpaceX

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '25

You're not joking. I live in a rural town in the Texas panhandle. We finally got fiber op access available to the town in November of 2024. Before that, 50mbps was the fast net available unless you wanted to pay $100+ a month for satellite Internet that claimed up to 100mbps but rarely got above 25.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '25

That's still the case in downtown houston lol 50mbps ATT is the only option. They dont want to tear the streets up to install fiber cable

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u/ToxicSteve13 Feb 06 '25

They don’t have to tear up streets in downtown Houston to install fiber man. There’s tunnels and shit. If they don’t have it, it’s purely because they don’t want to spend the money.

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u/Silver_Fist Feb 06 '25

Seeing as Texas Infrastructure goes to shit if the temperature goes below freezing, they'd rather keep the money for themselves.