Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own
ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet—but when a town rolls out its own solution, it's amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legislature.
TDS had one main complaint: the project should not be financed with city bonds.
So a company moved up priority of upgrading a town's connectivity before the town was sold out on politics. The essence of Net Neutrality is....who the hell pays for it. There's no plan worth installing when bureaucrats call a telecom greedy then offer IOU bonds to the lowest bidder! The government is worth nothing as it is and the internet is a business built on cash.
Only consumers have cash, not taxpayers broke by social justice. This effort is more about propaganda attacking the image of a telecom which moved in to halt the public assimilation of a valuable network to pad the resume of local politicians than bringing broadband to the people.
Will residents in Monticello ever hear about that or is it still too much fun to bash Bush?
