Does anyone know about how long before broadband is installed

[hunter]

28. There is 5G going up all over my community.

The future may be fiber and 5G.

Some of my neighbors rely on wireless connections exclusively for their internet needs. That's not so restrictive as it seems with some providers offering unlimited "DVD quality" video streaming.

My children, who depend upon the internet for their work, live in urban areas with fiber connections directly to their homes. One of my kids has redundant internet connections -- fiber, cable, and wireless.

Running a fiber along with the power lines and sticking 5G boxes on power poles isn't magic. It's less trouble than the rural electrification and telephone projects my great grandparents signed onto.

One of my great grandfathers got training as a telephone lineman during the Great Depression and was frequently called upon to repair the local phone lines after winter storms. He may not have been as enthusiastic about his life as a cattle rancher as he was about his radios. His daughter, my grandmother, was likewise not an enthusiastic rancher. She and my grandfather left ranching to work as welders in the California shipyards during World War II and never returned, creating a bitter stew of family resentments.