> not gonna lay fibre cable/replace cabling for the people living in remote areas...
The threshold is 25 customers per mile. Not openly discussed, and might be flexible, but hard-fact for me.
My 2 mile road has about 40 customers. I am NEVER getting better wires.
Until 2012 we didn't have basic cellphone unless we stood in the driveway. They put a tower in the graveyard, now my dumb-phone is 5-bar any time, but our semi-smart phone gets half-bar at best. Can't talk, but texts go through, eventually, apparently through a tower on the other side of a semi-near town.
Over on the island a similar road with 60 customers has fiber-optic. And so proud of it the company put signs on the road.
Here the only options are 28K dial-up (which may degrade to 0.6K) and Cable TV which was laid in the 1980s, long before any public internet. The cable is better, except mid-evening when everybody on the road is streaming movies.
What we need is a 100-unit condo in the middle of the road. 90+ new customers, they'd bring better wire right in. But my title has a covenant against multi-family housing, anyway the economy still sucks.
On top of that, ALL of Maine and much of VT and NH are fed through ONE skinny fiber through Vermont. (We found that out after floods knocked-out that line.) Duh.... Boston? Quebec? Both are closer to much of Maine, and have sturdy pipes. But that didn't come up even in the over-hyped 3-Ring plan (3 loops so Maine can talk to Maine better, but no added wire to the rest of the world...)
Time-Warner has various tiers of service, with various maximum speeds. But they already charge WAY too much for the poor service we get, and I don't believe that paying much more would really up my average useful speed near as much as it would drain my budget.
Yes, you could say I live in the woods because I want to get away from it all. And because it is cheap with no city services (no sewer, no water, no cops, lame school).
Oh, and no gas. Under the current glut, we should be suffocating in gas. Yet a busy gas installer went broke because the gas company was laying pipes too slowly. And that stall is many miles from here.
However my comment on Jensen is the huge number of scripts and multiple servers, in contrast to the clean 1997 site they had before. "View Source" and try to suss that out. Someone worked long and hard filling the code with "stuff", to turn a high-performance website into a low-performance website.