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ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Simple. Let them get government handouts, by being nationalized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Make necessary infrastructure municipal utilities... Water, gas, electric, telephone, Internet... If you need it to participate in society, it shouldn't have a profit motive attached, period.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, in an affluent suburb of Pittsburgh, two companies are pulling new fiber, where there is already a provider and fiber lines. Why? Because of this. No one chooses Comcast unless they are the only game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised they're allowed to do with with Comcast being headquartered in Philly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pittsburgh is like 5 hours from Philly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd assume they have the whole state locked down via the state legislature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

A lot of giant corporations don’t shit where they eat. They treat the locals well so that they continue to get favorable legislation passed.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Despite that, ISPs claim that prices for the low-cost option should be calculated based on "the economic realities of deploying and operating networks in the highest cost, hardest-to-reach areas."

Frankly, in the hardest-to-reach areas, I'm not sure that it makes sense to subsidize terrestrial ISPs at all. Hard-to-reach rural areas are Starlink's bread-and-butter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The upfront cost for Starlink is insane for most people, especially those in rural areas.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's way less than the cost of running a fiber line out there though!

So potentially subsidise the starling terminal instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine tying my only communications with the outside world to the whims of an unhinged lunatic who has proven that he’s willing to ruin good things just because he feels like it that day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Other satellite internet options are available (or will be soonish)

Oneweb is live, although they aim more at ISPs and businesses.

The Amazon one might happen if New Glen ever gets of the ground (although it's launching on other providers too)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Musk is already a problem for national security, if we're going to use Starlink even more, the government needs to just seize the company

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Kill your ISPs. They are more trouble than they are worth.

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