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[–] 67 points 3 years ago (3 children)

They’ve been stealing taxpayer dollars for 30 years, constantly stalling and delaying and then saying the plans are now outdated and we need more money for the new plans. Repeat every decade. Everyone knows it’s a monopoly with speed/price fixing yet somehow it never improves.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can't speak to Comcast's evils, but I call my ISP once a year to ask about my speeds and bill. Just got bumped from 200/20 to 1000/?, with a $10 discount. I'm on the edge of town, not technically rural, but close enough.

    Not sure the answer to the monopoly thing, but I used to be an internet cable guy, so I can speak to the complexity of having 2 providers where there was only one. The costs are staggering.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure the answer to the monopoly thing,

    • make it a publicly owned and operated municipal utility
    • make the "last mile" publicly owned infrastructure and private service providers can connect to the data center that connects the last mile
    • require that the company who owns and maintains the last mile can not also be a service provider over that last mile infrastructure

    The last one is how Texas handles the power grid, so it would need a real regulatory body making sure the private last mile infrastructure is actually maintained, unlike the Texas power grid.

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