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[BleedingRed]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

With retail and service, it's often about cheap connectivity, which means broadband. With Casey's in particular, based out of Ankeny, Iowa, they are in thousands of small towns without adequate broadband. It's one of the most painful things to deal with as a network service provider. Not much is worse.

5G will change everything

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by BleedingRed

5G will change everything

It is certainly poised to. Coverage is still going to be an issue, though, at least for a while. And especially in a lot of the areas Casey's serves.

On another note, you know what is funny about these markets? It's basically CenturyLink and Mediacom, especially in the larger population centers. There's also an ILEC here that was the holdings of GTE, prior to the Verizon merger.

And then you have Iowa's 175 or so independent telephone companies. While many areas around here struggle to get adequate DSL or cable, I have 100Mbit ethernet over fiber to my house, despite the fact that I live about a mile from town, and despite the fact that the largest town my telco serves has 1100 people.