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Early broadband ran on decades-old phone lines
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High-speed internet was originally built on a foundation of massive compromise. Rather than running new cables to every home, providers aggressively pushed high-frequency network signals through the exact same degraded copper lines installed decades ago for simple voice calls. It was a brilliant, incredibly fragile hack that constantly dropped out during storms.
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