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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @02:33AM (4 children)
And this is why anything you post in that area isn't worth reading. You start with a mindset that a single philosophy is always correct and then go through contortions to make reality fit that philosophy.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:06AM (3 children)
A single philosophy based on individual liberty is always correct. Anything else is just making excuses for your own moral failures.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:12AM (2 children)
Too bad capitalism is orthogonal to individual liberty.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:05AM (1 child)
See, this is why the Tide Pod Challenge doesn't bother me. Anyone stupid enough to eat one absolutely should.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:39PM
Ah yes, those toddlers should be removed from the gene pool!! We should also put cartoon characters back into smoking commercials. Genius!! I mean what business does the government have restricting a businesses advertisements? Of course those sissies have to use men with guns to get their way, I can't stand this oppression anymore!