Mail about to get a lot slower.

you would THINK that would be the case, and yet over decades the government shelled out hundreds of billions to telecoms to do just that, and yet there are many areas without broadband

most promising these days seems to be starlink with their low orbit satellites

I think there is also some hope from the mobile phone industry with stuff like the system T-Mobile is using to provide high-speed internet over cell towers. But those networks will need to expand a lot to meet the need.