Comment on Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband

Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If only they had Comcast, they could experience the joy of 10G internets.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    By 10G I assume you mean a monthly data cap of 10GB?

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    • uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No it’s 10G, higher than 5G. The only thing better would be 11G.

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      • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For $4,000,000,014, I’ll make you one that goes to twelve.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s nothing free market about how cable companies operate.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure there is. They are natural monopolies that form in the free market. The free market isn’t a good thing.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol, so all the regulation protecting them is “natural”?

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      • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, those come after they gain a monopoly. Those regulations weren’t there when the “free market” turned them into a monopoly.

        There are certain products and services that form a monopoly naturally when they operate in a free (or even relatively free) market. Those are referred to as “natural monopolies”, ISPs are among them.

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