I do wish we could do that again…separate the infrastructure from the provider, have a municipal fiber provider and a free-market for Internet services over the fiber.
What is absolutely hilarious about this is that most European countries have this as well as a lot of other countries. It’s just the US that is overrun by corporate owned broadband.
Doesn’t even have to be municipal…I’d settle for a strongly regulated public/private partnership…but really nothing we have now works.
Around here, our electric service is kind of like that. You have your supply (the energy provider) and your distribution (the wire owner). We can choose our own supply but we have to have the distributor that’s in the region. There’s some good suppliers but there’s also a lot of scams.
That’s the closest analogy we have currently to what I’m talking about, but still not quite perfect, since as far as I’m aware the electric supply thing is more like a group-buy of bulk energy and weird business math.
What is absolutely hilarious about this is that most European countries have this as well as a lot of other countries. It’s just the US that is overrun by corporate owned broadband.
Doesn’t even have to be municipal…I’d settle for a strongly regulated public/private partnership…but really nothing we have now works.
Around here, our electric service is kind of like that. You have your supply (the energy provider) and your distribution (the wire owner). We can choose our own supply but we have to have the distributor that’s in the region. There’s some good suppliers but there’s also a lot of scams.
That’s the closest analogy we have currently to what I’m talking about, but still not quite perfect, since as far as I’m aware the electric supply thing is more like a group-buy of bulk energy and weird business math.