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Re:Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks t... by rhino369 on Friday December 04, 2015 @10:49AM (#10676945)
It would probably cost ~750B dollars. It would spook the shit out of investment for a long time. Government would probably be even worse at running it.

And then you'd have to find the public will to spend around 200B to run FTTH everywhere.

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Re:Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks t... by blakeyrat on Friday December 04, 2015 @02:34PM (#10678535)
> Government would probably be even worse at running it.

At this point, I'm not sure that's possible...

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