• Imprudent3449@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    The cable lobby loves to bring up rural areas but when we gave them millions to build out they just took the money, said fuck it and did jack shit. I’m beginning to think that they prefer to under serve those areas and then use that as a bargaining chip to get everything they want.

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      7 months ago

      I am in New England. Looking to buy a home. The amount of area that is not covered at 100/10 is fucking criminal. Like, they upped my price this year. For what? Transferring packets didn’t get more expensive. Did you go e your employees raises? No? Are you expanding your infrastructure? No?

      Like what the fuck.

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      7 months ago

      The power companies in my area started installing fiber on the power lines and running their own ISPs.

      No data caps or anything, I’m raw dogging these torrents at like 80 megabytes a second, I even started running my own home server

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      7 months ago

      In Australia we watched American ISPs do exactly that and then we did the exact same thing with the exact same result because our politicians are corrupt pieces of shit with no backbone, integrity or ethics.