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America tires of big telecom’s shit, driving boom in community-owned broadband networks
For decades, frustrated towns and cities all over the country have responded to telecom market failure by building their own fiber broadband networks. Data routinely shows that not only do these ne…
As a result, countless communities are now deploying cutting edge, affordable, gigabit-capable fiber networks for the first time to customers long trapped on the wrong side of the digital divide. Instead, such companies quickly got to work trying to pass anti-democratic state laws banning such networks, spreading disinformation via fake consumer groups, or flinging lawsuits at towns and cities across America. But it is a very cool example — 100 years after a similar backlash played out with rural electrification — of locals banding together to combat regional monopolies (and the corruption that protects them) to dramatically improve their quality of life.
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