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posted by chromas on Friday August 24 2018, @03:41PM   Printer-friendly
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In a report [PDF] put together by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, investigators looked at real-world internet offerings within a 30-mile radius of Rochester in Minnesota.

Rochester provides a useful contrast in that it has a heavily built-up center with a spread-out urban space surrounding it. It also claims to have no less than 19 companies that provide residents with broadband internet access – something that its local council has boasted about – and exists in a state whose leaders have set some ambitious broadband goals: 25Mbps for everyone by 2022; and 100Mbps by 2026.

However, as the investigation revealed this month, competition is something available only to a minority of people who live in the most dense areas, and access to fast internet access above federal minimums remains a virtual monopoly.

"We have 19 local broadband providers and, of those, we have two cable providers, six DSL providers, four fiber providers, three fixed wireless providers and four mobile providers," the report quotes City Council member Ed Hruska as saying.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/23/rochester_broadband/


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday August 24 2018, @05:04PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday August 24 2018, @05:04PM (#725909)

    Ajit Pai is working on a directive stating that a State has sufficient broadband coverage if at least one person in the State has 5/1 access. The Twitter-in-chief will then announce that his administration has brought Broadband to all Americans, and Fox News will repeat that until the elections.

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