Cedar Falls Electric, a city utility, put in Fiber cables before the
telcos got wise. You can get fiber to the house or bidness anywhere in
CF for reasonable money. In 2000 we had a biz connection that was t1
equivalent for $70/mo. That was 1/4 or less what mabell wanted for
equivalent bandwidth. Ours was essentially a cable tv hookup, but in
the industrial park, there were no other cabletv hookups, so we got the
full bandwidth. We had awful telephone service from qwest, but
blazing internet.
There were a few other municipalities who got in fiber before the telcos
stamped it out.
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote on 6/3/19 8:12 PM:
The ISPs have successfully lobbied in most states to prevent them from having
to lease or make an agreement with other service providers to prevent
competitors form coming into the market. They’ve been successful enough to even
put a stop to this when a municipality has agreed to do so by dragging them
into the courts.
Why did Google fiber fail?
Yeah, you guessed it. The powers that be like Charter made it so difficult for
them to string fiber that they tossed in the towel.
Here’s a good story about the situation:
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-cable-municipal-broadband-20160812-snap-story.html
<https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-cable-municipal-broadband-20160812-snap-story.html>
-D
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