Internet Service News (US ISPs are bad and should feel bad)

[Yuri-G]

if I had to choose between Comcast and slower internet I know what I'd say


fortunately I don't have to make that choice... yet

[dasva]

I actually tried them out... super nice great customer service free 30 day trial. And would've stayed to if I actually got the 18-20 mbps they promised me. Unfortunately I kept dipping down to 8-10 and that's just not enough especially after I yelled at Comcast enough for them to bury their cables and do whatever else they did to make it so I stop dipping sub dial up speeds on hot days

[Gredival]

I actually tried them out... super nice great customer service free 30 day trial. And would've stayed to if I actually got the 18-20 mbps they promised me. Unfortunately I kept dipping down to 8-10 and that's just not enough especially after I yelled at Comcast enough for them to bury their cables and do whatever else they did to make it so I stop dipping sub dial up speeds on hot days

Glass fiber has infinite scalability. It's probably people staying inside and using the internet and clogging their crappy equipment at the ends of the cables.

[DrClout]

Good for Colorado

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...et-neutrality/

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[Roranora]

one campaign spent $15,000 and won 57% of the vote; telecom spent $900,000 for its 43% share

gogo municipal broadband

[DrClout]

Damn, that's a huge win lol

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[arus2001]

5 years to get it up still leaves a lot of wiggle room for commercial ISPs to be mega douche, though.

[DrClout]

True but I like that the precedence is now here. Other cities and states can start getting their shit together

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[arus2001]

Could probably figure another year added on for everyone else, then, to research costs/logistics/grants/loans, write up proposals, get things voted for, and then done.

With that sort of window, I feel like it might be better to renew the push to get internet reclassified as a utility and thus regulated as such, but fuck if that'll happen with the republicans in charge.

[Roranora]

this is already in place about 30 miles down the road in Longmont with their municipal gigabit internet, NextLight. it's also $70/month

Fort Collins will get this done and a cool city will be cooler still

it will be a greater struggle in so many other places, but hopefully we will hear of more municipal broadband proposals

[6souls]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42570512

Ajit Pai cancels appearance at CES where he was set to debate the positives of him overturning net neutrality. He has attended every CES for the past five years.

[Niiro]

The shit got thru the FCC, not his problem anymore.

[Infini]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42570512

Ajit Pai cancels appearance at CES where he was set to debate the positives of him overturning net neutrality. He has attended every CES for the past five years.

He's running scared shitless now as he knows anything he says will be torn apart.

[Zealot]

How has municipal internet been implemented in places that have it?

[Niiro]

My guess would be they did it by virtue of being places with small markets that telecoms deemed not worth investing in, either in terms of providing service or lobbying efforts.

[Talint]

How has municipal internet been implemented in places that have it?

Chattanooga Was a Typical Postindustrial City. Then It Began Offering Municipal Broadband.

The feat was made possible not by a tech giant but by the city’s municipal power company, EPB, which in 2007 set out to modernize the city’s power grid, and realized it could lay every customer’s home for fiber-optic cable at the same time. The near-decade-long experiment has worked: By offering gigabit connections at $70 a month and providing discounts for low-income residents, EPB has taken tens of thousands of customers from the Internet behemoth Comcast, which offers service that is about 85 percent slower at twice the price. EPB now serves about 82,000 people, more than half of the area’s Internet market. It’s been such a success that dozens of other towns and cities have begun their own municipal broadband networks, providing faster and cheaper service than private companies.

[Zealot]

I'm running for office locally. I'm going to adopt this as a platform.

[Roranora]

Yeah, Chattanooga got it started over a decade ago and without any net neutrality concern. They were just upgrading infrastructure and were forward-thinking enough to add fiber networks with new electrical.

It's quite simply an infrastructure rollout; telecoms will talk incessantly about the last-mile costs or other cost prohibitive complaints but this is very feasible for many reasonably populated areas and competent public utilities.

[Krazy]

I'm running for office locally. I'm going to adopt this as a platform.

Cool, run locally in central NY cuz my internet options fucking suck.

[Zealot]

That is not where I am local to.