Third option: municipal fibre
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weew@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Geodad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have that here. 🥰
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Thats illegal most placss.
So twice as cool as well as functionally superior.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I should really read before I post… :)
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not really. Most of the rural plans in the US are run by utilities companies that are local.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Fourth option: Municipal fiber, but open access to those lines for private ISPs of all types.