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Why Is US Broadband So Slow?

Posted by timothy on from the midichlorion-concentrations-vary-by-continent dept.

phantomfive writes "Verizon has said they will not be digging new lines any time soon. Time-Warner's cash flow goes towards paying down debt, not laying down fiber. AT&T is doing everything they can to slow deployment of Google fiber. How can the situation be improved? Mainly by expediting right-of-way access, permits, and inspections, according to Andy Kessler. That is how Google was able to afford to lay down fiber in Austin, and how VTel was able to do it in Vermont (gigabit connections for $35 a month)."

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  1. Re:govt enforces the monopoly. Want govt monopoly? by 0123456 · · Score: -1, Troll

    roads, water, electricity, bridges: all were started by government and that was the major funder.

    Do you actually, really believe there were no roads and bridges before government built them? No-one anywhere thought 'hey, we could put some logs over that river and build a bridge and then we could get to the other side without wading through the water' until a government bureaucrat came along and suggested it to them?

    You really believe that?

    No wonder the world is in such a mess.