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Re:Colorado communities secure the right to build their own ... by ams6110 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:20PM (#8569092)
If you want to swap meaningless anecdotes I can tell you that my cable service is more reliable than my electrical service. Neither are perfect but I have not yet had an internet outage this year that I've noticed; my power has been out for significant amounts of time (> 1 hour) at least a couple of times, and if you count momentary off/on outages it's been closer to a dozen.

Where I grew up we had persistently poor water pressure. It took over a decade for the city-owned water utility to admit there was a problem and install a booster pump for that neighborhood.

All my area utilities have fees for establishing service, deposit requirements if you have low credit or are a new customer, and if you call them out for service and the problem turns out to be with your plumbing or your wiring, you can bet there will be a charge.

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Re:Colorado communities secure the right to build their own ... by duaneb on Thursday November 06, 2014 @03:24PM (#8569518)
Just this morning, comcast had a massive outage across philadelphia and southern new jersey. Comcast is BASED in philadelphia. There was no explanation or warning, just as the work day started. If that were electric, it'd be national news; instead, it's just another day in the shitty world of comcast: accountability is way down on the list compared to fees, bugging me to upgrade my service.

So still anecdotal, but hundreds of thousands of people were affected.

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Re:Colorado communities secure the right to build their own ... by sliverstorm on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:57PM (#8569380)
I think what we are really seeing here is that different municipalities have different degrees of success... In mine, no one even thinks about power/water/sewage/roads (except during road repair), but the poor quality of internet service is a weekly subject.
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