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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by toomuchtodo on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:20PM (#20844082)
If you read the article, Fort Collins had to issue $143 million in bonds to finance the system. The US is enormous, and the cost to deliver fiber to everyone will be high (versus Europe or South Korea).

Arguably, as a muni utility, you don’t care about turning a profit versus Comcast and other for profit enterprises. And you have local governance over the infra and how it’s operated through local government. But it still takes a lot of effort; effort that can be distributed across the country, but effort that needs to be expended nevertheless.

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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by VorticesRcool on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:30PM (#20844107)
The United States bay be big, but it still has double the population density of New Zealand and yet New Zealand has high avaliability of cheap gigabit fibre.
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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by koolba on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:55PM (#20844380)
That’s hardly a fair comparison when 1/3 of the population of NZ lives in Auckland.
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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by skinnymuch on Saturday August 31, 2019 @12:16AM (#20844580)
Does every single place and person in NZ have super fast internet? NZ and Australia both have a huge portion of their populations in their major cities or around them. It is not at all the same as comparing to the US’s population density.
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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by rasz on Saturday August 31, 2019 @05:23PM (#20848854)
How about the densest place in continental US? NY Manhattan, 1st Avenue - choice is Verizon DSL or Spectrum Business Cable.

"New York Votes to Kick Spectrum Cable Out of the State" https://fortune.com/2018/07/29/spectrum-communications-kicke...

"New York City sues Verizon for not completing citywide fiber network" https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/14/nyc-sues-verizon/

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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by VorticesRcool on Saturday August 31, 2019 @05:11PM (#20848810)
Yes, many rural areas in New Zealand have super fast internet. The same can not be said for Australia.
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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by Havoc on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:48PM (#20844160)
>The US is enormous (versus Europe ...).

Europe is bigger by area actually, but yes I hear you on the practicality front.

We can argue reasons all day long - point is US consumer internet seems pretty terrible from an outsider perspective, esp when considering the US's overall tech role.

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Re:Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for ... by throwawaytoday5 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @10:46PM (#20856422)
Good thing 80% of the population is concentrated into cities and not spread across the country...
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