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I do think the significance of this is cities realizing there is no Disney prince riding in on a white horse to save them, and taking their own futures into the
by yingw787 8y ago
I do think the significance of this is cities realizing there is no Disney prince riding in on a white horse to save them, and taking their own futures into their own hands. I'm hoping there's enough "anchor cities/regions", like Nashville/RTP/Kansas City, that have contingency plans and referendums ready for an infrastructure push at the local level if Fiber pulls out there, to prevent all white-collar talent from drifting towards the coasts and leave a complete vacuum everywhere else. It'll take a lot of organization, money, guile, and community trust to push through ISP brainwashing, but the cities that succeed will hopefully become the few "shining cities on a hill" that could save an entire state from economic irrelevance. Hopefully, when the pendulum swings the other way on urban centralization, they'll emerge as good alternatives to raise children, work remotely, and live a good life.
- Balvarez 8y agoSadly I don't see Nashville creating a municipal ISP. Google fiber has been such a disappointment here. It's only available to a very small area.
- JonathonW 8y agoEven if there were the (local) political will for municipal fiber in Nashville, it would get blocked at the state level-- too many state politicians in AT&T and Comcast's pockets. Same thing happened when EPB tried to expand their fiber network in the Chattanooga area.
- sesutton 8y agoI think people here in Raleigh would hardly notice if Google Fiber pulled out. They only ever offered it in a very small area and AT&T has been offering gigabit to to large parts of the area for several years now.
- dwighttk 8y agoYeah, in Durham, I've seen a lot of AT&T guys running fiber... I've only gotten a Google T-Shirt and seen an apparently empty office space downtown with a Google Fiber sign in the window.
- BubRoss 8y agoThere are spots in Kansas City, MO where you can get gigabit fiber from three different providers.
- kortilla 8y agoWhite collar talent doesn’t follow fiber installs. You can’t even get fiber in many places in Mountain View of all places.
- sangnoir 8y ago> I'm hoping there's enough "anchor cities/regions", like Nashville/RTP/Kansas City, that have contingency plans and referendums ready for an infrastructure push at the local level if Fiber pulls out there, to prevent all white-collar talent from drifting towards the coasts and leave a complete vacuum everywhere else. Which is why the cable cartel is lobbying at state-level to make deny cities that option - conveniently, those cities are in red states.