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Telecom lobbyists keep taxpayers from using fiber


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2014 Jun 8, 3:54am   672 views  1 comment

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused

The reasons vary by city, but in many cases, the reason you can't get gigabit internet speeds—without the threat of that service being provided by a company that wants to discriminate against certain types of traffic—is because of the giant telecom businesses that want to kill net neutrality in the first place.

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1   John Bailo   2014 Jun 8, 4:17am  

I've been looking at rural properties...and, occasionally I will come across one that has no commercial Internet vendors like a cable or telco.

But it will have fiber Internet supplied to it by the PUD (Public Utility District). And the speeds (according to to http://www.broadbandmap.gov/ ) will be 1Gpbs -- Google class speeds!

Here's an example:

http://www.chelanpud.org/fiber-optics.html

So, by not having "competitive businesses" and instead having a Government owned utility, you end up with 20 times the speed?!

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