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posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 05 2018, @11:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the give-me-network-choices dept.

Ars Technica is reporting on San Francisco's initial steps to create a citywide fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) open-access network where ISPs compete for customers.

According to Ars Technica:

San Francisco is trying to find network providers to build a city-wide, gigabit fiber Internet service with mandated net neutrality and consumer privacy protections. It would be an open-access network, allowing multiple ISPs to offer service over the same lines and compete for customers.

The city yesterday issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to find companies that are qualified "to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a ubiquitous broadband FTTP [fiber-to-the-premises] network that permits retail service providers to lease capacity on the network." The project would also involve a free Wi-Fi service for city parks, city buildings, major thoroughfares, and visitor areas. Low-income residents would qualify for subsidies that make home Internet service more affordable.

ISPs offering service over the network would not be allowed to block or throttle lawful Internet traffic or engage in paid prioritization. ISPs would also need customers' opt-in consent "prior to collecting, using, disclosing, or permitting access to customer personal information or information about a customer's use of the network."

Could this be the first major US metropolitan area to create a real free market in broadband Internet? Do any Soylentils have similar municipal networks?


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 05 2018, @10:44PM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday February 05 2018, @10:44PM (#633497) Journal

    On the contrary, Uzzard, your social policy is the level below these and from which these spring.

    You are suffering from (or, more accurately, making the rest of us suffer from...) a priority-inversion bug. Commerce is not our highest purpose. We, the human race, do not exist simply for monetary or mercantile reasons. When you get this inversion properly taken care of, your fiscal policy will change on its own.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @10:58PM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 05 2018, @10:58PM (#633512) Homepage Journal

    You really can't handle it when we agree on something, can you? Totally fucks up your world view and makes your mind race to figure out how that can't possibly be right.

    Also, if you think material wealth is even close to my highest priority, you haven't listened to a word I've said the entire time you've been here. Here, I'll give you the Readers' Digest version: wealth < happiness < life < liberty.

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:32AM (4 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:32AM (#633664) Journal

      Again, you have that all out of order. "Happiness" shouldn't be in that list, because the other three things are your (perceived...) ranking of what *makes* you happy.

      Which also, in the order you posted them, has the odd consequence that being dead and liberated (?) makes you happier than being alive and, er, not-liberated? Explain that one, please? You don't strike me as someone who puts any stock in the idea of your existence continuing after the death of your physical shell.

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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @10:52AM (3 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday February 06 2018, @10:52AM (#633729) Homepage Journal

        "Happiness" shouldn't be in that list, because the other three things are your (perceived...) ranking of what *makes* you happy.

        No, they're not. Important is not the same as enjoyable.

        As for the latter, you're not reading well or something. Google up Patrick Henry.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @12:35PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @12:35PM (#633768)

          You're boring, same old crappy arguments, same old blindspots.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @12:54PM (1 child)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday February 06 2018, @12:54PM (#633780) Homepage Journal

            Weaksauce. Troll harder.

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            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:26PM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:26PM (#633921) Journal

              I don't think AC was trolling, just stating the facts. Really, your entire worldview comes down to "Got mine, fuck you," with some, as you put it, "weaksauce" attempts to bolster it through saying you "earned" everything you have. Sure ya did, buddy. You popped out of the womb with a full time job and all.

              God, you are tiresome and boring. Get some new arguments, will you? It's like watching a dog on a short chain running circles around the post and yapping to itself...

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