Re:The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped ...
by dcow on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:27PM
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It also doesn't even seem accurate. Private industries can compete with public ones on both quality and cost. The problem is that, in the face of municipal broadband, private companies have to compete to actually serve the public not "compete" to gouge consumers of as much money as possible in their comfy government protected monopolies.
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Re:The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped ...
by luckylion on Thursday April 29, 2021 @01:30AM
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They can, if the public providers let them. It's a choice in that regard, since the government can simply say "we'll offer at 10% of our cost, and subsidize it with taxes", in which case you can't compete unless you're insanely more efficient than the public provider.