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Comcast Tries To Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband (dslreports.com)
Karl Bode reports of Comcast's efforts to "derail Fort Collins community broadband": Colorado is one of more than twenty states where incumbent broadband ISPs have quite literally written and purchased state protectionist laws prohibiting towns and cities from getting into the broadband business, even in instances where the private sector has failed to deliver. But Colorado is unique in that town and cities in the state have been able to vote locally on whether to overturn this ISP-lobbying-for- law, SB 152. And guess what? They keep voting to exempt themselves from the law, usually overwhelmingly. Dozens of cities and towns continue to opt out of the restrictive state measure during local elections. More than 100 have done it so far, which should tell you plenty about how locals feel about their local broadband options. Fort Collins, Colorado will be the latest to try and table a petition on November 7 simply exploring the idea of opting out of this state provision and considering a city-run broadband network. But Motherboard highlights how incumbent ISPs like Comcast have already spent more than $200,000 to prevent this conversation from even happening. To be clear Fort Collins isn't certain to proceed with such a network, but incumbent ISPs are terrified they've even begun to have the conversation, and have been running ads like this one to try and derail it.
" Fort Collins, Colorado will be the latest to try and table a petition..."
US English - to table something means to put it away without further discussion. "Let's table this motion till next week."
British English - to table something means to place it on the table for discussion. "Let's table this ISP motion and vote on it."
I always thought DSLReports was US based and used US English... who knew?
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P.S. WAY TO GO FT COLLINS and the other 100 CO cities that have fingered "you're number one" to Comcast and the telcos.
Super fast too! I just moved to Longmont from Berthoud and I wrnt from paying Comcast $60 per month for 25Mbps to paying Nextlight $50 for 1000Mbps (actually, my wireless router seems to max out at around 700Mbps, but that's not really Nextlight's fault).
Needless to say, I'm not a huge fan of Comcast :-)
From the Comcast ad
It absolutely will.
I work from home, logged into my employer's computers over the internet.
That takes my car off the road 10 trips per week, during rush hour, the busiest time of day.
I live in Longmont, a city of 100,000 an hour south of Ft. Collins. Longmont set up a municipal broadband utility (NextLight) and is over 60% of the way to running fiber to every single building in city limits (29 square miles). My neighborhood got wired a year ago. I've got $50/month gigabit fiber that runs speedtest at over 930 mb/s - no transfer limits, no extra charges. It was even rated the fastest broadband in the country. Seriously, every medium-sized city should do this. Six people in the house, 20+ devices, nothing ever slows it down, and just about everything is limited only by the sending server capacity.