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> What didn't work was trying to make big corporations play nice and care about the customer. > What is proposed instead is not regulation but city-owned or mu
by samarthr1 4y ago
> What didn't work was trying to make big corporations play nice and care about the customer.
> What is proposed instead is not regulation but city-owned or municipal-owned fiber networks so that you don't end up with awful, vendor-locked internet at absurd prices due to monopoly on your location.
Instead, in the worst case, you get horrible city provided internet that is extremely oversubscribed due to budget.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoWe get that defacto, move somewhere that's only serviced by Comcast (and where they have actual laws saying no other internet providers can provide in that district). In the current case, you still have mandatory consumption, but you're forced to pay a corporation instead of having it be municipal.
- hgfhgfhgfhgfhtg 4y agoThis is false. Plenty of small ISPs exist, including 5G from Verizon and ATT
- pwinnski 4y agoRather than horrible private-company-provided internet that is extremely oversubscribed due to profits?
- hgfhgfhgfhgfhtg 4y agoThe "horrible" private-company-provided internet are used by almost everyone in the world. Which provider is "oversubscribed" due to profits?