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There's a difference between not allowing ISPs access to public lands and outright prohibiting them from offering their services. Obviously if they wanted to r
by logicchains 13y ago
There's a difference between not allowing ISPs access to public lands and outright prohibiting them from offering their services.
Obviously if they wanted to run wire through a house they'd have to get the owner's permission, or the local government's permission to dig up a road. The thing is, as the law currently stands they're forbidden from doing so; even if every household in they city signed a contract saying "sure, let company X run cable through our yard", company X still wouldn't be allowed to sell them internet over that cable.
Maybe a company could innovate and develop some form of fast wireless mesh network. But even if they had the technology and finances to do so, local laws stating "the only company allowed to sell fast internet here is Comcast" or equivalent prevent them from doing so.