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Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by amazon_not on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:18PM (#12213498)
Comcast and Verizon aren't into using other people's infrastructure. They want to own the customer by owning the infrastructure to the customer.

Comcast won't even take government subsidies to build out to unserved areas.

Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes by MaysonL on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:36PM (#12213963)
And they are spending big lobbying dollars on state legislatures to try to get them (sometimes successfully) to outlaw municipal broadban.