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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…

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[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 20 points 1 year ago

They could... but typically that required pulling tons of permits to do. Also means that they intend not to make a whole lot of money doing it since "cheap" is part of this. Companies are a bit allergic to doing a lot of work for cheap.

But to that point, I have enough density in my area that centurylink is installing fiber (finally...) and actually offering it at almost reasonable value. It makes monetary sense for them in this case. So they're doing it.

[-] Green_Bay_Guy@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

CenturyLink from where I grew up (rural Wisconsin), still only offers DSL as the fastest option. I now live in rural South Vietnam, and I have a fiber drop into my bedroom. Ridiculous really.

[-] Sproux@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

I'm so curious, how did you end up moving from rural Wisconsin to rural vietnam

[-] Green_Bay_Guy@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

for the fiber

Actually, I just fell in love with it. Wonderful food, people are kind, ~~internet fast~~, no politics, fantastic coffee. I could go on for days.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

no politics

Be careful, you can end up in other place with fast and cheap(100Mbit/s for ~4-10$/mo) internet and without politics - Russia.

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