I don't know the details. It's not that rural. It's a few miles from Ellsworth (small city) but it's down a private road. They had sorta broadband part-way down the road already. I think it's Verizon they have but am not sure. They were actually happy enough with Starlink but they switched when this became available.
Thanks! Always curious to hear more about this topic, trying to get fiber pulled to a property in Old Forge NY that currently is using StarLink (which is fine for now).
As far as I know it "just happened." Presumably whatever provider decided that it would be profitable to extend Internet to a group of homes that are decidedly not low income. Maybe they had some requests from homeowners.
I'm not even sure why my brother switched. It was presumably cost as they were perfectly happy with Starlink. (Which, as I wrote, I was perfectly happy with as well the times I was up there.)
Pre-Starlink, lack of decent Internet options were increasingly an issue with the people along the road. Not that I go up there a lot but I couldn't have worked remotely from up there pre-Starlink.
