Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month

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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