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Why Municipal Broadband is Good

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-johnny-can't-speed dept.

batageek writes "An excellent interview with Jim Baller (muni-telco-lawyer) concerning the growth and efforts of municipal broadband providers and the fights they go through with the incumbent providers and state legislatures." If you're wondering why you don't have fiber-to-the-home yet, read this.

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  1. I have a dream, brothers and sisters by caluml · · Score: 5, Funny

    That one day, all houses will be made with fibre straight to the door, and bandwidth will be just another amenity, much like electricity, or gas, or telephones are now. And then all the local bandwith companies can fight over our business, and offer us lower and lower rates.

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    1. Re:I have a dream, brothers and sisters by Dutchmaan · · Score: 5, Funny

      a single fiber serving 4 square blocks is plenty

      ..so is 640k...or so I hear.