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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. slashdot trolling is spreading too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    like a prairie fire it is spreading.

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