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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ... by pseudalopex on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:08AM (#26830139)
Where can I read about Seattle's municipal broadband program? The city only mentions a fiber network for city agencies, lots of studies, and corporate initiatives.[1]

[1] http://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/broadband/studies-an...

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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ... by nostromo on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:40AM (#26830390)
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2014/01/s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Seattle

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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ... by pseudalopex on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:16AM (#26842538)
Looks like a corporate initiative. Puget Sound Business Journal said the city would have owned the network but the company said not.[1] And the company and the city both said the city wouldn't invest money.[1][2] So probably the PSBJ writer misunderstood the dark fiber lease.

And did it ever launch? It would be strange to call it uncompetitive when the real problem was it never existed because the company couldn't raise funding.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130215072656/http://gigabitsea...

[2] http://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/broadband/studies-an...

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