As much as I dislike the muskrat, is this fiber actually real?
You literally questioned its existence, why are you confused?
Now, everything else you said I either knew, or agree with the assertion.
Btw, I’m definitely not young.
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ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 week agoI’m not sure why people are commenting that I think fiber isn’t real?
Of course it’s real.
But maybe you’re young- Comcast, AT&T, etc, have been given multiple tranches of money since the early 1990s to deliver a nationwide fiber network in the US, they’ve never delivered more than 0.1% of it.
Giving them more money, won’t make it happen.
Giving municipalities (cities, counties) the funds to build out their own fiber networks is good.
Giving more money to Comcast and AT&T to do nothing, is not good, it’s corporate welfare.
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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Assuming the big ISPs don’t sue or lobby to make it against the law for those cities to or counties to then build it.