20 More Cities Want To Join the Fight Against Big Telecom's Broadband Monopolies

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:28AM from the internet-of-the-people dept.

Jason Koebler writes At least 20 additional American cities have expressed a formal interest in joining a coalition that's dedicated to bringing gigabit internet speeds to their residents by any means necessary—even if it means building the infrastructure themselves. The Next Centuries Cities coalition launched last week with an impressive list of 32 cities in 19 states who recognize that fast internet speeds unencumbered by fast lanes or other tiered systems are necessary to keep residents and businesses happy. That launch was so successful that 20 other cities have expressed formal interest in joining, according to the group's executive director.

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Not quite a monopoly by careysb · 2014-10-27 09:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

In Denver, CO we can choose between Century Link DSL (speeds suck) or Comcast (expensive and service sucks). If the city of Denver jumped in that would at least give us three choices. Competition is good, right?
Re:Meaningful Competition? by Noah+Haders · 2014-10-27 10:02 · Score: 4, Interesting

I think the key point is to decouple the content from the last mile network. when a house can choose between different cable suppliers and different internet suppliers, that's when the competition happens.