Bell and Telus had mastered the art of extracting government incentives to pay for their fibre build outs as well. They would demand subsidies in the 100s of millions of $ in some cases.

In one example they had Fibre running to a city in Northern Ontario. Of course it was along a highway and already strung there for years. A subsidy was made availabel for providing highspeed internet to rural customers and rather than build out new infrastructure, the ISP just said they would connect anyone along the path of the fibre that was already there. That fibre had ALREADY been subsidized by a previous government.

Starlink has hopefully brought an end to that. Now instead of spending 10s and 100s of thousands of $ to subsidize the connection of a house, they simply need to provide a $800 subsidy for a Starlink dish.