Third option: municipal fibre
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weew@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
On one hand, Musk.
On the other hand… Telecos.
You can either give billions more to the world’s richest asshole, or you can give billions to companies that already received that money last time and did absolutely fuckall with it.
Lose-lose
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Geodad@lemmy.world 5 days ago
We have that here. 🥰
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Thats illegal most placss.
So twice as cool as well as functionally superior.
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I should really read before I post… :)
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Not really. Most of the rural plans in the US are run by utilities companies that are local.
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean there is a third option: municipal fiber
But then the gub’ment is your ISP but at least it’s not making billionaires money.
I’d suggest the best case scenario to me would be a fourth option like a community run co-op of fiber to the premises and have it be grant funded. But who am I kidding, that’s almost to socialist for rural America like where I live.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Fourth option: Municipal fiber, but open access to those lines for private ISPs of all types.