Comment on Google Fiber is increasingly going by ‘GFiber’
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 11 months agoThe last mile is a really expensive. Even a well intentioned company that wants to keep it’s prices low has difficulty building that last mile out. There just aren’t enough Americans who actually want government infrastructure like that. If enough people wanted them I firmly believe it would happen.
ExLisper@linux.community 11 months ago
The last mile is not that expensive. Where I live you there’s provider offering fast internet to rural, sparsely populated areas and it’s not much more expensive than fibre I get in my apartment. I will be more expensive to connect a house like that definitely not thousands of dollars like they try to charge people in USA. In USA it would also be cheaper if the monopoly would not block smaller companies from rolling out the service. There’s a lot of stories about neighbours joining together and building the last mile themselves at fraction of the cost Comcast wanted to charge them.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Monopolies don’t exist every place. There are several companies in my area offering high speed Internet. One is in suburbs all around me but not in mine. They also have the cheapest costs. I called them asking when they might be expecting to my suburb and they said that my town (pop 60,000) will be one of the last because of how difficult it’ll be to get to every house. A different company moved in pay year and they cost more than the first one. State governments shouldn’t be allowed to block municipal Internet.