I don’t think that’s true. If the limitations are physical, the cost is the same. Lay fiber once, problem solved.
Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps
Hope@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not sure this is going to be a net good. There are plenty of places that don’t come close to the old benchmark, and surely it’s easier to go from offering 50Mbps to offering 100Mbps than it is to go from no service to 25Mbps?
AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 months ago
Do you know why places don’t come close right now?
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
If there’s not already lines to an area, you’d have to really try pretty hard to even find enough older/slower cabeling to justify the install costs alone. The only reason we don’t already have fiber everywhere is because they don’t wanna pay to dig… Despite being heavily subsided with the understanding that they should already be doing that.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Don’t want to dig, and throw roadblocks in the way to prevent anyone else from doing it (just ask Google Fiber).
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Honestly, im not terribly upset they are getting blocked. The last thing we need is google truly breaking into the utility market nationally
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For Google Fiber to have been successful, Google would have had to overturn countless local laws (paid for by the ISPs) that granted the one who laid down the lines a monopoly on their use. So even if Google had won it would have been a net win for customers, as it would have paved the way for local ISPs to compete with the national ones.