Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks

Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by hotpotatoe on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:27AM (#42076898)

So? We trade a terrestrial based monopoly for a space based one?

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Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by lxgr on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:30AM (#42076916)

We'd also trade the fragments of resilience we have left against a single point of failure (both organizationally and infrastructurally).

Space-based internet makes total sense for very remote areas or as a bridge technology, as well as a technology to compete with incumbent terrestrial monopolies, but I'd hate to see fiber and terrestrial 5G rollouts stopping entirely in favor of it.

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Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by orwin on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:32AM (#42076936)

> We'd also trade the fragments of resilience we have left against a single point of failure

It's the characteristic of the 21th century, trading resiliency and robustness for performance. As long as the world is stable, it's nice.

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Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by llamaimperative on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:31AM (#42076930)

but this one is owned by twitter guy I like! /s

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