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Telecom Monopolies Are Once Again Funding Covert, Sleazy Local Attacks On Community Broadband Networks
We’ve long established that U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s …
They’ve blown through untold billions of dollars in regulatory favors, tax breaks, and subsidies for fiber networks they always somehow leave half completed, yet have the gall to create fake local groups pretending to care about fiscal responsibility: But these kinds of folks aren’t interested in having a “transparent” good faith policy conversation, they’re getting paid to seed bullshit into the discourse on the behest of wildly unpopular corporations. In Utopia’s case, they’re not even “government run.” They help local municipalities build voter-approved “open access” fiber networks that lower the cost of market entry letting ISPs big and small compete using the same centralized infrastructure.
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