Most hometowns in the USA can do something that will help everyone of their residents and businesses. Do you know what that is?Build our own community-owned broadband system.
"Cities and towns have come to understand that 'having world-class bandwidth is maybe even more important than having an NFL football team,' said Blair Levin, a former FCC official who oversaw development of the National Broadband Plan under President Obama and is now executive director of the Gig.U fiber initiative."
"Levin has gone around the country helping cities understand why action at the local level is so important. While Internet service providers often don’t compete against each other in individual cities and towns, the cities and towns are in effect competing against each other because broadband infrastructure fuels growth.
“I was in front of College Station, Texas, and I remember a city councilor saying something to the effect of ‘Oh I get what you’re saying—our cable company doesn’t compete with South Korea Telecom, but we compete with Seoul, Korea,’” Levin told Ars."
"Communities are recognizing that broadband "impacts their ability to do everything, whether it be traffic control or schools or civic engagement,” he said. “The biggest change is people are starting to notice how things they do today affect the network they have 10 years from now. You can’t do this overnight. Networks take a lot of time to plan, engineer, and build.”
"Fed Up, US Cities Take Steps to Build a Better Broadband", Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 28 October 14, (as cited in RSN).
Are you as tired as I am of being screwed over by Comcast and AT&T? Well we have an alternative, don't we. Google is showing us the way to tie into world class Internet connectivity without Comcast or AT&T.
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