At the Verizon store today, their "Blazingly Fast" connection was 0.2mbps on speedtest. We all know technology exists to go much faster than that, but it is the

At the Verizon store today, their "Blazingly Fast" connection was 0.2mbps on speedtest. We all know technology exists to go much faster than that, but it is the politics of the companies involved that is slowing everyone down. Consider the other news story submitted to HN recently about 1Gbps coming to Chattanooga not Verizon, not Comcast, but the community-owned EPB. Whether it is here in 10 years will depend not on the tech, but on the companies so it could come sooner than 2021 if there is a shift with the sources' understanding.