Re:Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Supp...
by paulddraper on Saturday June 10, 2017 @10:02PM
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Hm, looks like the definition of high speed internet changed in 2015. (Since we need all that bandwidth to download crap ads.)
In any case, most census districts with high-speed internet have multiple providers.
Re:Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Supp...
by croon on Saturday June 10, 2017 @10:12PM
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> In any case, most census districts with high-speed internet have multiple providers.
Nice cherry picking. So screw those other 37% that live under ISP monopolies?
Are you still denying that local monopolies is a real problem?
Re:Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Supp...
by ryanwaggoner on Sunday June 11, 2017 @08:24PM
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They should have updated the speeds considered "broadband" but by definition, you'll always have a portion of the population lagging behind any standard that's defined as "what 80% of the population had access to"
> 100% of all developed US census blocks have at least two broadband providers.
That's false going by your own source. Broadband requires 25Mbps/3Mbps [1] (even if I personally think even that's low), and 58% percent of developed census blocks lack choice there, of which 21% can't even get it.
The truth remains that if you want broadband, you're in a majority of cases locked to a local monopoly. This is what net neutrality fixes. Until local monopolies can be dealt with at least.
[1] https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/broadband-progr...