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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by msla on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:56PM (#16063898)
I hope I'm being overly-suspicious, but I always wonder: Who are they going to buy transit from? An ISP they just denied a profitable monopoly? It would be the simplest thing in the world, it seems to me, for the ISPs in the region to refuse to sell bandwidth to the city that just beat them.
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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by ajbourg on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:20PM (#16064133)
Transit providers are usually _much_ more competitive than last mile.
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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by monocasa on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:55PM (#16064460)
Tier II last miles like Comcast weren't going to give them transit anyway.
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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by taoistextremist on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:19PM (#16064114)
I'm not too savvy on this stuff, so correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they build out to the nearest internet exchange point? I thought those were typically open for anybody to hook up to.
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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by burkemw3 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:25PM (#16064176)
I have read here that the commercial market has competition [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926613

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