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from the if-you-build-it-they-will-come dept.
TechDirt reports
Grassroots revolution [such as cities building fiber networks themselves or striking public/private partnerships with companies like Google Fiber or Ting/Tucows] is precisely why large ISPs like Charter, Comcast, and AT&T have spent the last decade lobbying for (and in most instances directly writing) protectionist bills across twenty different states banning local citizens from making these kinds of decisions for themselves. If you want to see precisely why these regional monopolists are so afraid, you need look no further than Huntsville, Alabama.
City-owned Huntsville Utilities has been building a fiber broadband network that should service the lion's share of the city's homes and businesses over the next few years. What's more, the network will be open access--meaning that ISPs can come in and compete with each other over the regional infrastructure. Google Fiber has already signed up to be one of at least three ISPs taking advantage of the build, and should begin offering service there by the middle of this year.
Have any Soylentils had this happen in their area?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 20 2017, @04:37AM
Let me try to understand your "first hand experience". You had some contact with some people in Huntsville, and you were impressed with their education/communication/efficiency/whateverelse. Since this ran counter to your expectations of drawling backwoods hicks in Alabama, who would have trouble reading a simple electric schematic, you ASSUMED that Huntsville is an exception to the norm.
How much time have you spent in Alabama? How well do you know the people of Alabama?
In my own experience, Alabama has it's fair share of idiots, as well as it's fair share of very bright people. The worst I can say for Alabama is, they have more than their fair share of racist sons of bitches - but, I wager even that isn't as bad as you think it is.
Oh - the liberal bastion shit. Yeah, you're an elitest. People who don't share your political views have to be ignorant savages, on par with the great apes living in the jungle. Got it. Politics, as usual.
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