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Comcast & AT&T cast SF's into oblivion: https://www.fastcompany.com/90319916/the-anti-competitive-forces-that-foil-speedy-affordable-broadband https://www.fastc
by thwythwy 7y ago
Comcast & AT&T cast SF's into oblivion: https://www.fastcompany.com/90319916/the-anti-competitive-forces-that-foil-speedy-affordable-broadband https://www.fastcompany.com/90319916/the-anti-competitive-fo...
- psim1 7y agoIf I understand it correctly, the two ways that incumbents are able to kill these efforts are through lower costs and through infrastructure restrictions. Emitting radio waves is both cheaper and lower-infrastructure than laying fiber. The question in my mind is whether the quality holds up.
- thwythwy 7y agoYou forgot pay the opposition party to demagogue. Lobbying has a higher ROI and they can keep treating internet service as a luxury good instead of a commodity.
- jnathsf 7y agoI led this project - it died with the late Mayor Ed Lee. An interim Mayor doesn’t have the political capital to lead something of this scale.