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101 US Cities Have Pledged to Build Their Own Gigabit Networks
The US has a big and rather complicated internet speed problem. Its broadband infrastructure is woefully behind in speed and price compared to a broad swath of other countries, and much of this has to do with its tenacious commitment to maintaining the status quo: that is, giving big telecommunications companies a lot of our money without being able to demand a fair amount in return.
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Living in Chattanooga, TN, we were actually the first city in the states to offer 1Gbps to the home, and it's been a God Send compared to the alternatives which were AT&T UVerse, and Comcast, so now for $70 a month, you can have 1Gbps/1Gbps without any throttling or any of that other stuff. So it's good to hear other cities are about to get what we've had for a few years now.
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Looking forward to this! Of course, my city isn't one of them, but...
My state isn't even on there. =(
Here is a link with a the map of the cities that have joined in.
http://nextcenturycities.org/member-cities/
Very excited to see my city on there!
So, instead of Google snooping on your data packets, it's going to be the government snooping directly? I can't see any scenarios where that would bite users in the backside...
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It's great that municipalities are looking into this.. but I wish some of this enthusiasm, budget, and manpower would be used for the last mile problem for rural communities.
Very pleased to see my city on the list. Hopefully it'll reach my house though; we've never been able to get cable internet because we're not serviced by ANY of the providers. We're in the middle of the city and no one can run a cable to our house. Hopefully this initiative will make that irrelevant.
I think it'll probably take a really long time, buuuut it's progress at least.