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Part of the reason people are very excited by municipal broadband is the ownership part. No giant corporate entity standing between you and your internet connec
by afavour 6y ago
Part of the reason people are very excited by municipal broadband is the ownership part. No giant corporate entity standing between you and your internet connection.
The connection being mobile is nice but it's not something I require from my broadband connection, I already have a cellphone. And I live in an apartment building where installing a dish will be all but impossible.
Don't get me wrong, Starlink is amazing tech and in rural areas it'll be a huge deal. But in reasonably sized towns and cities a wired, locally owned internet connection is also huge.
- CountDrewku 6y agoYou just have extremely slow ass local government/regulation to deal with instead...
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoWhich is better than an actively malicious oligopoly.
- CountDrewku 6y agoYes but at what cost? If you undercut any private business to the point where they all leave the area and there's no competition or alternatives I don't think that's going to be a good thing in the future.
- afavour 6y agoI’d argue that’s one of the reasons municipal governments are the best place to do this. If you tried at the state or federal level it would be slow as molasses but cities can move quicker. Of course it’s all relative. Verizon has supposed to have been rolling out FIOS to my neighborhood for a decade or more now.
- CountDrewku 6y agoI get it. I have municipal broadband and it's obviously the better choice in my area right now. In the future it may not be though and if you run all the competition out of town by undercutting it with subsidized tax payer dollars then you might not like what's left when it comes time to upgrade that network. More choices, alternatives are always going to be better.