I cannot comment on the cost in the US, but in the UK it would be the farm that’s more expensive because the cost is relative the distance. You still have to file the same government applications to close a dirt road as you would a busy city street. But you would have much more miles of road to file the application for, plus the actual expense of the engineering work, for rural destinations.

And that’s without factoring in that fewer subscribers are going to sign up in rural destinations vs busy urban hubs.

This is why the UK had to make subsidies available for rural fibre.

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dmbrThnU 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I've lived dense city to rural in the US, and it's suburbia that has the best internet. Can rip up the street for days no problem, but still a relatively dense population.

	▲	laughing_man an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's my sense, too. Companies seem to get permits really quickly where I live, and there are enough people around to make it worth their while. AT&T, which already had cable here, ripped up the street a few months back and put in fiber. There are two other high speed providers as well.