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Government succeeds where free market fails miserably


               
2015 Sep 30, 7:46am   1,062 views  3 comments

by Dan8267   follow (4)  

City-run ISP makes 10Gbps available to all residents and businesses

A municipal Internet service provider in Salisbury, North Carolina, announced today that it is making 10Gbps service available throughout the city, to both businesses and residents.

The city-run Fibrant, which has deployed fiber throughout Salisbury, was created five years ago after city officials were unable to persuade private ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure. Gigabit download and upload speeds have been available to residents since last year for $105 a month, while customers can pay as little as $45 a month for 50Mbps symmetrical service. TV and phone service is available, too.

Fibrant decided to build its network before the North Carolina legislature voted in 2011 to limit the rights of cities to offer broadband. North Carolina’s anti-municipal broadband law is now the subject of a court fight, with the Federal Communications Commission arguing that it should be invalidated. If the FCC wins, municipal providers could expand Internet service to surrounding cities and towns.

Holy shit, the government offers faster, cheaper Internet access than private industry. It's almost as if private industry often fleeces customers and has a perverse incentive to exploit their customers that government does not. But that contradicts the dogma that private industry is always better than government and the "free" market is always better than evil socialism.

I'm sure these facts won't change any minds though. Conservative economics is a religion, not subject to reality, science, or empirical verification. We just have to have faith that city-run fiber will fail, end up costing more, and turn your children into gay communist Muslims.

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1   HEY YOU   2015 Sep 30, 5:24pm  

I'll not let this slide.
Is Salisbury, North Carolina governed by Rep/Con/Teas? If so,then it's another rightwingnut,big govt.,socialist,redistribution city that prevents unregulated "Corporations are people" from benefiting from the great American Free Market.

Damn! I've almost perfected the constant attacking of the R/C/Ts agenda.

2   Strategist   2015 Sep 30, 6:49pm  

Dan8267 says

Holy shit, the government offers faster, cheaper Internet access than private industry. It's almost as if private industry often fleeces customers and has a perverse incentive to exploit their customers that government does not. But that contradicts the dogma that private industry is always better than government and the "free" market is always better than evil socialism.

I'm sure these facts won't change any minds though. Conservative economics is a religion, not subject to reality, science, or empirical verification. We just have to have faith that city-run fiber will fail, end up costing more, and turn your children into gay communist Muslims.

Ha ha ha. You are so naive. They haven't had time to fail just yet.
They obviously used non government contractors to build it. Eventually, the costs to run this will be so high, they will turn it over to a private corporation, for 10 cents on the dollar. That's OK Dan, we know you have faith in everything that does not work.

3   Dan8267   2015 Sep 30, 7:40pm  

Strategist says

Ha ha ha. You are so naive. They haven't had time to fail just yet.

A hypothetical argument which could be applied to anything including using the military to combat ISIS. There is no actual analysis or reasoning or evidence in you argument.

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