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I take it you did this yourself but that is definitely not the cost of paying someone to do it for you. There is no way you can purchase the fiber and pay someone to trench and lay it for you for under $1.50/ft.

I would have preferred a program where in rural counties the up front cost of acquiring the $599 kit can be claimed as a tax credit.

In the FCC press release above,

> Collectively, these companies are committing to deploy broadband service of at least 100/20 Mbps service to over 700,000 locations and to maintain or improve existing 100/20 Mbps service to approximately 2 million locations in 44 states across the United States.

That is Starlink bandwidth and that 18B would pay for 30M install kits instead of just 2.7M homes.