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New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A lot of this started in the US because the big telecom companies were paid a lot of money by the government to roll out broadband in the middle of the country, where customers are spread out enough that they didn't want to bother building the infrastructure, but they took the money and did none of the work. So, these communities did it themselves. Some of them literally burying fiber optics cables by hand through their farm fields.

I remember reading somewhere a few years ago about how this is feasible on the neighborhood level now at potentially better speeds and cheaper than the telecom companies with a satellite connection that people can use via a wi-fi network across the neighborhood.

[–] 0x0 4 points 4 weeks ago

but they took the money and did none of the work.

It's called fraud in my neck of the woods...