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How a DIY Network Plans to Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 27 2016, @10:27AM   
from the making-connections dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

In a warehouse basement in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood late last year, a handful of self-taught network engineers gathered to casually discuss how they might make Time Warner Cable irrelevant in their lives.

Toppling—or at least subverting—a telecom monopoly is the dream of many an American, who are fed up with bait-and-switch advertising campaigns, arbitrary data caps, attacks on net neutrality, overzealous political lobbying, lackluster customer service, and passive-aggressive service cancellation experiences that are a common experience of simply being a broadband internet customer these days. The folks at NYC Mesh are actually doing something about it.

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly

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Original Submission

• Register of interest Register of interest (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2016, @04:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2016, @04:40PM (#295388)

  I'm in Cambridge MA and wish I could find people interested to start such a project. It makes me think there is an opportunity to keep a register of people interested by geographical area.

• Re:Register of interest (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2016, @02:26AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2016, @02:26AM (#295719)

  I'm in Cambridge MA and wish I could find people interested to start such a project. It makes me think there is an opportunity to keep a register of people interested by geographical area.

  Here in the Corporate States of America, that register is called a "terrorist watchlist."

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