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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ... by lotsofpulp on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:53AM (#26831805)
Very few places have access to a symmetric fiber connection. I know from plugging in addresses over and over into Comcast and Centurylink’s website while searching for properties.
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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ... by KirillPanov on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:32AM (#26832582)
And Centurylink is desperate to ensure that this kind of manual plugging of addresses into websites is the only way to find out anything about availability.
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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ... by lotsofpulp on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:46AM (#26832691)
I learned to assume any development older than 2010 with buried utilities does not have fiber.
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Re:The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits ... by KirillPanov on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:57AM (#26842178)
Unfortunately that's not really accurate. :(

CenturyLink has aerial fiber and underground copper in several areas. For example, in Aberdeen it happened because they got a grant from the FCC.

The whole situation is a mess, and CenturyLink likes the mess.

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