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Re:Level 3 Global Outage by dboreham on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:23PM (#24323828)
Why not just raise money to pay for service from for-profit providers? Much more efficient use of donation funds.
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Re:Level 3 Global Outage by akritrime on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:40PM (#24323944)
Hmm, I actually didn't think about that at all. I guess I got too fascinated by this video[0] and wanted to apply something similar to our current scenario.

[0]: https://youtu.be/lEplzHraw3c

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Re:Level 3 Global Outage by mschuster91 on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:54PM (#24324531)
Because often enough there is only one dominant service in the region who has no pressure to compete from anyone due to regulatory capture (esp. regarding right of way on utility poles) and so has no incentive to upgrade their offers to the customers.
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