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Don't write off the Utah incumbents yet, they convinced the politicians to sabotage iProvo and take a massive loss.
by tbyehl 3y ago
Don't write off the Utah incumbents yet, they convinced the politicians to sabotage iProvo and take a massive loss.
- lolinder 3y agoIt looks like iProvo was started nearly two decades ago [0]. A lot has changed since then. Especially after the pandemic lockdowns, public awareness of the importance of home internet and the stranglehold of the monopolies has gone up dramatically. I would not expect to see a repeat of iProvo in 2023. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IProvo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IProvo
- tbyehl 3y agoYeah. Another thing that changed during that period where Utah was deliberately sabotaging iProvo was a bunch of states made it illegal for a municipality to use debt financing for buildouts. In another instance of politicians intentionally harming rural broadband, over in Tennessee, EPB was extending their fiber network to neighboring communities outside their electrical footprint that wanted it, and they made that illegal, too.