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Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband (www.techdirt.com)

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Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband::Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the "worst connected city in the U.S." thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn't really a mystery: consolidated monopoly/duopoly power has resulted in a broken market where local giants like AT&T and Charter don't have to compete on price, speeds, availability, customer…

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[-] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My electric coop installed fiber last year, up to gigabit with no limits and no throttling. They're even cool with my rampant torrenting.

I've been saying for years that internet should be treated like a utility, and I was right.

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