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Municipal Broadband Projects Spread Across U.S.

Posted by Zonk on from the competition-is-healthy dept.

Mediacitizen writes "Media rights group Free Press has just unveiled an online broadband map showing the vast extent to which publicly supported 'Community Internet' projects have overtaken towns across the country. Hundreds of communities now have municipal broadband systems on the drawing board, despite aggressive lobbying efforts by big telephone and cable companies to derail these projects. The national map shows Community Internet is spreading like a prairie fire."

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  1. Re:It's a Good Thing. by Zigg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe we want to be albe to provide it to ourselves and not have it either sold to us in restricted forms or provided to us by inefficient beuracracies.

    Maybe we want to be "albe" to opt out of paying for everyone else's free access, run by your "beuracracy".