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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by bduerst on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:43PM (#27681471)
Competing internet providers still need to invest in last mile costs, which are prohibitively expensive (just like roads).

Why is competition the goal? Because it ultimately lowers prices for consumers? That is what municipal internet achieves.

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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by jonnycomputer on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:54PM (#27681599)
And innovation. Don't forget that.

I'm being somewhat sarcastic here, as its not clear there has been that much innovation in this space for a while. Or if there is, I welcome hearing about it.

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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by ixacto on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:16PM (#27683826)
The innovation is realizing that consumers are tired of your tiered upsell bs (looking at you Xfinity/comcast) and just offering everyone 1000/1000 and being done with it. That is literally what some of the reseller ISP are doing now.

Real innovation would be going the EPB route and offering 10-gigabit for $300/month. https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/

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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by bduerst on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:33PM (#27681986)
I think any innovation we'll see is 5G wireless towers going up.
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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by trothamel on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:08PM (#27681746)
Starlink doesn't.

My feeling is municipal broadband is a good idea from a decade ago, but about to be made obsolete by fast wireless.

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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:15PM (#27681810)
Is starlink performance comparable to a symmetric fiber connection? I’m not aware of any wireless technologies that come close.
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