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Running List of Barriers to Municipal Competition

Posted by timothy on from the litany-of-bad-actors dept.

batageek writes "In keeping with recent stories on Municipal Broadband, Jim Baller (Muni Telco lawyer/god)has kept a running tab of all the Bell/Cable company-introduced anti-municipal broadband legislation around the country."

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  1. It's so cheap that city governments aren't needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If setting up a wireless network is so cheap and easy, then why aren't more groups like the ones in Portland and Austin simply doing it ?

    If a club or co-op formed to subsidize hotspots and coverage, and you could get the password to use them if you were a member, I'd pay. They should have a discount available to anyone who runs a node from their home and covers enough of their block.