My initial reaction agrees that does sound quite high.

However, I wonder what the alternative strategy costs for rural broadband are. My guess is that laying a lot of cable to remote locations could possibly be even higher than the $1376.52 per customer cost? It seems like something like Satelite internet connections could be less to set up, but it's not clear to me the cost of the equipment, installations and upkeep are in that case?

Also 1376 / 12 months averages out to only about $110 per month per customer for just one year. Which honestly doesn't sound too bad.