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The Entire Broadband Industry Just Sued California For Daring To Protect Net Neutrality

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The Entire Broadband Industry Just Sued California For Daring To Protect Net Neutrality [techdirt.com]

>BUY YOUR OWN EQUIPMENT AND RUN IT AS YOU PLEASE.

Here is the thing, I can't because fucking AT&T has gone out of it's way to make sure there isn't competition. Even if I wanted to buy my own equipment and wanted to start my own ISP I'd have to run cable and even though the city (not AT&T) owns 80% of the poles AT&T has wielded bureaucracy with such frightful precision that it takes 90 days for them to move their equipment on the pole they don't own so someone else can connect to it ... oh and then it takes another 90 days for them to move the equipment on the next pole so in a full year I can connect 4 fucking poles. In two years I could actually make it from my house to the closest main street. Eventually I'd be able to make it to an edge provider ... maybe in 10 years or so.

And if that sounds fucking ridiculous it is, because AT&T protested that doing multiple poles at once was too burdensome and they could only do them one at a fucking time ever 90 days.

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