Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband
Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband
Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the “worst connected city in the U.S.” thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn’t really …
Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband::Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the "worst connected city in the U.S." thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn't really a mystery: consolidated monopoly/duopoly power has resulted in a broken market where local giants like AT&T and Charter don't have to compete on price, speeds, availability, customer…
Countdown to the lawsuit by AT&T and Charter followed by Republicans trying to ban municipal broadband.
159Did you even read the article? This isn't municipal broadband its some company using broadband subsidies to deploy wireless internet.
1Don't Republicans tend to like local-first infrastructure?
-6Nope. Republicans don't like anything except "owning libs".
13They profess to, but if you look at their voting history and policy making, they really support corporations that spend lobbying money to enrich their campaign.
Pretty nearly every time.
6No. They like corporations.
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Oh no, they will lose out on all that efficiency from the free market
98This ia good, natural monopolies should be run by local goverments or the goverment.
61Ohio state legislature will make this illegal, or at least place a specific regulatory burden to make it illegal in this one city e.g. No town or city with a population over [insert Cleveland population -5%] or No city or town bordering large bodies of water [Lake Erie]. I guarantee it.
35The solution is simple: Secede from the state of Ohio, declare Cleveland an autonomous city-state, and befriend nuclear Gandhi so no one will dare contest you.
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A small town near me (6,000 population) installed fiber optic around down and now it’s considered a public utility and low cost to boot.
33Yea we are in the Chattanooga area and enjoy gigabit symmetrical fiber for $67/mo. No taxes or extra fees, just the 67. It's a big part of why we chose to live here.
17I thought you might be referencing Olds, Alberta who also did this a decade ago
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Great! Now do healthcare.
29And housing.
11You mean privatize it? This article is not about municipal broadband
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My electric coop installed fiber last year, up to gigabit with no limits and no throttling. They're even cool with my rampant torrenting.
I've been saying for years that internet should be treated like a utility, and I was right.
15Question: could not a private company mostly owned by the city do it? Normal for profit company providing alternatives? And do it block by block...
12They could... but typically that required pulling tons of permits to do. Also means that they intend not to make a whole lot of money doing it since "cheap" is part of this. Companies are a bit allergic to doing a lot of work for cheap.
But to that point, I have enough density in my area that centurylink is installing fiber (finally...) and actually offering it at almost reasonable value. It makes monetary sense for them in this case. So they're doing it.
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