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t1_iuejq1k wrote

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>These ISPs will just not run fiber.

Because running fiber is crazy expensive. You have to get multiple jurisidictions and private property owners to allow it. You end up ripping up streets or tunneling under them.

Remove a lot of the red tape to running the infrastructure and it will get a lot cheaper to run.

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t1_iuepk5h wrote

The only red tape is the monopoly wanting the red tape.

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t1_iuffmmm wrote

Yes, like when Google fiber tried to expand in Louisville and AT&T sued them to monopolize utility poles they didn't even own.

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t1_iuge15y wrote

Fiber was ran in most of my city in the early 2000s, then sat dark for decades.

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