> Outside of the major cities, Internet service falls off extremely quickly.

Saline is less than 10 miles from Ann Arbor.

> The people who attempt to fill these gaps are commonly rural telephone companies, electric cooperatives, tribal entities, or mom and pop shops...

That's fair, but at some point, you need to recognize you are competing with a major ISP. No one appreciates it when you come in, tear up the roads, and then pull out once the incumbent ISPs bump up their speeds ever so slightly. (Looking at you, Google.)

> They are very, very unlikely to decide to run an IPv6 network just because.

No one deploys IPv6 "just because," and yet more than half of the traffic to major sites is IPv6.