Boy I hope this pushes everyone to reject this assholes monopoly on rural last mile connectivity.

it would be transformative to have fiber and solar everywhere

The more rural areas make that sort of rejection hard. In the area I live in, my choices are pretty limited. I have a terrible cable option (I used to have this one), cellular options (I'm on one of these now) and Starlink. For now, the cellular option is good enough, though lately the quality of service has been going downhill. We have a lot more days where our connection just seems to go to hell for no reason. We also get degraded service when storms are in the area. And don't get me started on the shit-tastic hardware. Fiber isn't an option. I have seriously considered Starlink, but the company being owned by Musk has kept me away. Unfortunately, if the cellular option continues to go to hell, I might be pushed into giving Starlink a shot.

We really need something akin to a Rural Electrification push for high speed internet, if we want to avoid the wireless carriers becoming the de facto last mile for those areas. That's going to be expensive and take a lot of time, and may not even be possible anymore. The wireless options are starting to be "good enough" and people may just choose them anyway.

In the early days of cable internet, the first people in a neighborhood would get it and rave about how amazingly fast it was. Then a 2nd subscriber would get it and their down/upload speeds would drop by half when both tried to use it at once, then 3, 4, 10, 100 people would start sharing the same bandwidth and the clueless cable TV company employees would just tapdance without really fixing anything - which would require corporate to approve expensive upgrades to their backend.

Around here lately 5G based internet seems to be the same - they're trying a little harder, making fixed location subscribers declare where they are and charging mobile users much more, but it's inevitable: if you've got 100 homes all trying to use one tower at the same time, it's not going to go smoothly.

The problem with rural connectivity is cable-miles per subscriber. When the US rolled out copper telephone lines to the boonies that was HEAVILY subsidized by urban customers.