Good news, but the Supreme Court deciding to override the FCC and declare fiber to be exempted from Local-Loop-Unbundling requirements is still a travesty. The

Good news, but the Supreme Court deciding to override the FCC and declare fiber to be exempted from Local-Loop-Unbundling requirements is still a travesty. The Supreme Court sides with Verizon, whose argument was effectively, sure, there are laws about sharing the physical infrastructure. But we want to make a lot more money & might not do fiber unless we get a physical monopoly over this utility. The Supreme Court gave them their monopoly. There should be multiple ISPs competing to offer you high-speed service. Each would have to build it's own physical network, without Local Loop Unbundling, which gets harder & harder the more infrastructure is already put down. Before fiber, DSL for example allowed competition, created a huge number of competitive ISPs. But the Supreme Court killed that competitiveness, & seemingly nothing can ever be done to claw back this physical monopoly that was handed out to the giant corporate entities. Fuck us.