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ISPs should lay out an expensive fibre network (so expensive that Google Fiber had to give up on it) and I should pay less money? That's just crazy.
by zmzrr 7y ago
ISPs should lay out an expensive fibre network (so expensive that Google Fiber had to give up on it) and I should pay less money? That's just crazy.
- kstrauser 7y agoWhy? We already paid them $400 billion dollars to get you decent Internet access (see: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...). I think that gives us the right to expect you to have something better than 14Mbps DSL at a decent price.
- axaxs 7y agoAbsolutely! Even ignoring all the stimulus money and tax breaks probably given, municipalities all over the US are building out their own fiber that is blowing the others away in performance and even price usually.
- keanebean86 7y ago> so expensive that Google Fiber had to give up on it Part of that cost comes from ATT and Comcast using their government sugar daddy to make running fiber as expensive and difficult as possible. Example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/att-and-comcast-finalize-court-victory-over-nashville-and-google-fiber/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/att-and-comcast-...