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It doesn't really change the point of the article.

There are ways to make fibre broadband available, even in rural communities.

Fibre is always going to beat Starlink.

The ways to make it available involve stringing hundreds of miles of line. Of course it's possible, it's just prohibitively expensive because of the extremely low density.

Starlink costs $15k over 10 years and at the end of that you have nothing to show for the outlay.

Fiber costs far less than $15k on average and it is as good as new after 10 years.

But most rural consumers aren't ready/able to pay the outlay needed for the build. Normal suburban/urban residential broadband costs >$1000 per household to build, but rural broadband where you need many poles or lots of trenching is many times more expensive.

In some places the cost could easily be over $15k per home passed.

It’s not the cost per passing that matters, it’s the average cost per passing that matters.

Most consumers can’t or won’t pay the outlay up front, but that’s why you use financing.

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