Re:Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Ala...
by db48x on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:27PM
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It’s pretty much got to be regulatory changes. The regulations we have currently are what makes it legal to exclude competitors.
Re:Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Ala...
by fraserphysics on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:53PM
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Broadband is a natural monopoly. Most natural monopolies are either owned by the government or regulated. At the national level government in the US has failed with respect to broadband. I hope we can address that failure locally by building a government owned broadband utility.
Re:Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Ala...
by mschuster91 on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:23AM
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> When I heard that it killed Google Fiber and even such a money giant as Google can't properly fight it, I finally understood how bad it is.
The thing is, Google refused to pay bribes. Had they spent to the tune of a couple million in "campaign donations", the opposition would have collapsed.
It there any perspectives of game-changing in that field? And what can be done to change it?
I'm genuinely curious about it.