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The government is beholden to the first amendment, unlike the (small number of) private ISPs. Even if they weren't, in almost all cases we're talking about mun
by ryukafalz 5y ago
The government is beholden to the first amendment, unlike the (small number of) private ISPs.
Even if they weren't, in almost all cases we're talking about municipal broadband as an additional option, not the only option. One that would drive down prices through competition and whose operators have a vested interest in their users having a good experience regardless of how remote they are.
- throw0101a 5y agoA lot of muni broadband is the government owning the cables/fibre (OSI Layer 1/2) and then having ISPs sell IP (Layer 3) to those connected. See Utopia in UT for example: * https://www.utopiafiber.com/isp/ https://www.utopiafiber.com/isp/