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Correct, the government should have ran fiber lines to every home in the united states
by vablings 7mo ago
Correct, the government should have ran fiber lines to every home in the united states
- protocolture 7mo agoThe government should have torn up your copper monopolies a few decades earlier, but the one thing the US has done right is sort of letting local power companies and ISPs work it out for themselves where it comes to fibre. Enforcing a single standard everywhere is bad actually.
- vablings 7mo agoNah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-programme https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr... https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-gigabit-broadband-coverage-reaches-90-percent-of-uk.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g... If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.com/news/broadband/391612/bt-aimed-to-get-true-fibre-to-25-of-uk-the-actual-figure-0-7 https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.... Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it. Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-survey-awards-best-and-worst-uk-broadband-isps-for-2026.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...
- protocolture 7mo agoYeah vouchers are slightly better than subsidies alone tbh