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from the internet-as-it-should-be dept.

Ars reports [arstechnica.com]

The city of Ammon, Idaho, is deploying [an internet service] model that's worth examining. Ammon has built an open access network [ammon.id.us] that lets multiple private ISPs offer service to customers over city-owned fiber. The wholesale model in itself isn't unprecedented, but Ammon has also built a system in which residents will be able to sign up for an ISP--or switch ISPs if they are dissatisfied--almost instantly, just by visiting a city-operated website and without changing any equipment.

Ammon has completed a pilot project involving 12 homes and is getting ready for construction to another 200 homes. Eventually, the city wants to wire up all of its 4,500 homes and apartment buildings, city Technology Director Bruce Patterson told Ars. Ammon has already deployed fiber to businesses in the city, and it did so without raising everybody's taxes.

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