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ISPs are some of the biggest monopolists in the US market and bribe and lean on politicians to keep out competitors. Relative to other industries, they thus lea
by bugglebeetle 3y ago
ISPs are some of the biggest monopolists in the US market and bribe and lean on politicians to keep out competitors. Relative to other industries, they thus lean on the infrastructural status quo (and all the inequity baked into that) to make the most money at the lowest cost to themselves, so your argument doesn’t really track.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoLA is one of the very few non-monopolistic ISP markets in the US.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoThat’s laughable. I can get one bad broadband provider, one incredibly low-speed DSL provider, or bad coverage, data capped 5G service in my neighborhood in LA. Fiber isn’t available at all and when I asked if they had any intent to expand coverage to where I live they straight-up said “no.”
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoThat's better options than 90% of the US. Most places you have one option, and that is it.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoI only have one option (shitty broadband) that allows me to do my job as a developer in America’s second largest city, so no, not really.