After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband

Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by Simon_says on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:12PM (#16064598)

I feel like Comcast/Verizon/CenturyLink were too short-sighted. If they were only 50% as shitty to their customers as they have been, they could have ridden that gravy train for a long time. But instead they treat it as a contest to see who can twist the knife more, and there's such a backlash that they're going to start completely losing big markets.

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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by bsder on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:59PM (#16065656)

Hey, I can't get my 25% executive bonus if I don't somehow squeeze another 2% out of my department's expenses.

This yacht won't pay for itself, you know.

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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by Simon_says on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:30PM (#16065942)

Exactly. That's what I'm getting at. Being public companies means they have to report results quarterly, which gives incentives to juice the numbers with short term gains so long as the costs, like public goodwill and brand reputation, can't be quantified and can't be put on the balance sheet.

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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by tehlike on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:43PM (#16066085)

Unless you have jeff bezos skills to convince ling term this is better.

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