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Re:Broadband Monopolies Push Bill That Would Crush Your Abil... by axus on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:52AM (#37176488)
I'd think the local governments know what they're getting into, and if not they figure it out after a few years. Nobody is requiring providers to enter those local markets and be unprofitable.

Telecoms could raise local prices until covering 100% of the area is profitable. "Local government requiring customer service standards" might be a harder thing for them to comply with.

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Re:Broadband Monopolies Push Bill That Would Crush Your Abil... by rayiner on Friday August 18, 2023 @11:14PM (#37185124)
Local governments don’t care if their regulations keep out fiber, just like they don’t care if their regulations keep out housing development. When I lived in Baltimore, Verizon was trying to wire it up with fiber. The city wanted Google to come in and it wouldn’t. A decade later, there’s still no fiber in Baltimore. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/snubb...

Raising prices doesn’t work, because the other customers won’t pay that much more for fiber versus cable. My parents just switched from fiber to cable because they liked the TV packages better.

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