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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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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, I missed that they banned it in Ohio. It must only apply to new systems as I'm fairly sure Fairlawn is still operating municipal fiber.

That's really irritating though, of course they snuck it into a budget bill.

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoops! I went back to double-check after seeing what you said and found that the provision was actually dropped from the bill in the time between when it was passed by the Senate and signed by the governor.

The way it got quietly dropped like that kept it from being well publicized, but the long and short of it is that I misremembered and then failed to spot this detail while fact-checking myself. I'm sorry for spreading misinformation -- I've updated the original post

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 1 year ago

Ah good! That simplifies things for Cleveland then.