Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by technothrasher on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:57AM (#21006078)

Here in New England, the distinction between a city and a town is whether it is governed by a town meeting style government with selectmen, or by a city council style government with or without a mayor. In MA at least, you cannot choose to be a city unless you have at least 12K in population.

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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by mroche on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:07AM (#21006179)

The board of selectmen were always interesting in my town (at least to me, I didn’t really understand it as a child). Not sure if we are over the 12K minimum, but I doubt anyone would call us a city even if we were.

Municipal ISP would have been cool, but I think power would be a better option first. A neighboring town (either Mansfield or Medfield) as municipal power and compares to us during storms they do great (as in fast response times and efforts to not lose power).

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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by technothrasher on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:20PM (#21006926)

My father served on the board of selectmen for my town when I was growing up. He was so miserable during that time, it taught me to never, ever go into politics.

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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by mroche on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:54AM (#21013659)

I can imagine. By ‘interesting’ I should have clarified: it’s like watching a bunch of kids argue over who can take care of a pet rock better, but in reality the rock is a cat being neglected in the corner.

Not all selectmen are terrible, but it only takes a few bad eggs to make it hell for everyone.

I should also note that analogies are not my forte.

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