Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband::Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the “worst connected city in the U.S.” thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn’t really a mystery: consolidated monopoly/duopoly power has resulted in a broken market where local giants like AT&T and Charter don’t have to compete on price, speeds, availability, customer…
Countdown to the lawsuit by AT&T and Charter followed by Republicans trying to ban municipal broadband.
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Since it appears there’s precedent for this falling apart, hopefully Cleveland’s government will have done their research and be prepared, albeit I’m not necessarily optimistic either.
I grew up in Cleveland. Family still lives in the area. I am not expecting anything good to actually happen
The Browns are more likely to win the Super Bowl than this happening.
We doing okay this year, despite our best efforts to fail
We doing okay this year
First time? I’ve been a Browns fan since '88 - I know how this is going to end.
This thread aged perfectly for Cleveland 🙃
Haha hardly. I grew up in Cleveland. I fully expect us to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every week, every year
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Nope. Republicans don’t like anything except “owning libs”.
No. They like corporations.
Oh no, they will lose out on all that efficiency from the free market
If only they had Comcast, they could experience the joy of 10G internets.
By 10G I assume you mean a monthly data cap of 10GB?
No it’s 10G, so much higher than 5G. The only thing better would be 11G.
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There’s nothing free market about how cable companies operate.
Sure there is. They are natural monopolies that form in the free market. The free market isn’t a good thing. It’s what gives us things like child labor and corporate owned towns.
Lol, so all the regulation protecting them is “natural”?
No, those come after they gain a monopoly. Those regulations weren’t there when the “free market” turned them into a monopoly.
There are certain products and services that form a monopoly naturally when they operate in a free (or even relatively free) market. Those are referred to as natural monopolies, ISPs are among them.
A small town near me (6,000 population) installed fiber optic around down and now it’s considered a public utility and low cost to boot.
Yea we are in the Chattanooga area and enjoy gigabit symmetrical fiber for $67/mo. No taxes or extra fees, just the 67. It’s a big part of why we chose to live here.
Howdy neighbor I’m in Tri-Cities. :)
Here gigabit would be around 8-16$/mo.
To be fair, $65/month for gigabit fiber is pretty standard.
It’s what we got here in Southern Illinois, although I don’t use it.
Question: could not a private company mostly owned by the city do it? Normal for profit company providing alternatives? And do it block by block…
My electric coop installed fiber last year, up to gigabit with no limits and no throttling. They’re even cool with my rampant torrenting.
I’ve been saying for years that internet should be treated like a utility, and I was right.
