Internet service providers are objected to the lower rates they need to offer lower income customers if they want to obtain government funds from a new Internet access program.
That would require the government to not be bought out by billionaires. That would require the government NOT working for the billionaires that control them. That would require the government to actually give a fuck about anyone poor.
Worked on my home town for about 20 years until they outsourced to our version of Comcast as a ‘cost-saving measure’. Wow, were they stupid.
It actually worked astoundingly well. Hated ISP a? Make a phone call and within an hour your same gear was now on ISP c.
At a recent job I worked closely with some muni IT people. Their plan is to fibre their area and then price the backhoe access out so the ISPs have to compete over the common infrastructure and can’t restrict access. City doesn’t want to be an ISP; just manage the glass.
That would require the government to not be bought out by billionaires. That would require the government NOT working for the billionaires that control them. That would require the government to actually give a fuck about anyone poor.
In other words it’s never going to happen.
Worked on my home town for about 20 years until they outsourced to our version of Comcast as a ‘cost-saving measure’. Wow, were they stupid.
It actually worked astoundingly well. Hated ISP a? Make a phone call and within an hour your same gear was now on ISP c.
At a recent job I worked closely with some muni IT people. Their plan is to fibre their area and then price the backhoe access out so the ISPs have to compete over the common infrastructure and can’t restrict access. City doesn’t want to be an ISP; just manage the glass.