Submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan.
Comcast et al have taken (literal) billions of public dollars to expand rural broadband service.
Instead of laying fiber, they used that money to change the definition of broadband.
If corporations are people we need to be able to institute the death penalty for them too.
Can we hang Ronald McDonald first! Yee haw!
Verizon or another telecom will buy them out and then sell it to AT&T or cut a deal with Comcast when they’re done fucking it up. I’m glad they accomplished this, and I hope they prosper but I’m really pessimistic about telecom companies and their out of control government supported monopolies.
Running fiber for a small installation kind of warms the heart.
I wonder if some big ISP will roll in there find their IP blocks and start throwing copyright claims at them. Bury them in legal fees than buy them out for a pittance.
This is more or less how FCIX got started
I’d be more curious about the BGP peerings
Does anyone know there AS number?
God bless em.
Fiber of course is preferable, but requires a lot of knowledge and up front investment to lay. In Philadelphia there’s a WISP - wireless internet service provider - that has their equipment up on a tower and can service a particular neighborhood: phillywisper.net
I was ready to use them but our apartment building had made a fucking exclusive agreement with Comcast. If we lived in a normal house at that same address we could have got FIOS or PhillyWisper.
Oh good to know. We moved before the date on that document though.
Have you checked with the WISP to see if the exclusivity contract does in fact stop you from getting their service?
I worked for a WISP that laughed at those contracts and stuck an antenna on a windowsill. The exclusivity is for the DMARC and wiring going to your unit. If the WISP doesn’t need it then theres nothing in their way. It’s like sticking one of those cell sites in your house, who’s going to stop you?
Thanks for the suggestion. I did check with them, unfortunately it didn’t work, I think because our window wasn’t in their line of sight. Guy said he’d talked to other people in my building before.
I’m personally more interested in community WISPs
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Good. Now expand to the rest of the world. Comcast and their partners are everywhere, and they all suck.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
If they expand then they’ll end up just another evil corporate ISP, and/or if they start getting large enough one of the other ISPs will buy them up.
They don’t need to expand, there just needs to be many more small, ultra local providers.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The deregulation in the 90s is what killed the local ISP. Thanks, Bill.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996