With Minnesota repeal, number of states restricting public broadband falls to 16.
We do not have municipal broadband here (we live outside city limits anyway), but we have the next best thing- a local ISP started up and promised to lay fiber in any neighborhood in the county where 40% of the residents agreed to sign up for their service. Everyone said, “fuck Spectrum” in our neighborhood and lots of other neighborhoods and signed up and now they’re doing great.
The part that pissed me off was that once they started putting the signs in our neighborhood offering this, Spectrum tripled the neighborhood’s broadband speed. Meaning they could have done that any time, but didn’t.
And now the locally-owned ISP is laying fiber down rural roads.
Yeah, Fuck Spectrum is right up there with ACAB and other popular creeds. But good on your ISP for being true to their word. It really is for the best anyway. Everybody wins; except Spectrum. Fuck Spectrum.
The part that pissed me off was that once they started putting the signs in our neighborhood offering this, Spectrum tripled the neighborhood’s broadband speed. Meaning they could have done that any time, but didn’t.
Spectrum did this when Frontier fiber came in. Spectrum 100Mbs at $80/month became 300Mbs at $80/month overnight. Frontier fiber was still faster and cheaper with 500Mbs for $50/month.
Yep, the local ISP is still faster and cheaper here too. Anyone outside that minimum 40% who decided to stay with Spectrum is an idiot, but I haven’t seen a single Spectrum van in the neighborhood since it happened, so I have a feeling it was closer to 100% than 40%.
One of the benefits to getting StarLink is that I never have to be a pawn in those kind of games anymore. Not that I recommend it for most people but if you’re mobile or living in the sticks it’s pretty great. I’ve hit 400Mb per second at times.
This happened in my parents city about 15 years ago.
.5gbps - $45/mo
1g- $60
2g - $80
5g - $110It’s amazing.
FUUUUUUUUCK SPECTRUM. FUCK THEM SO MUCH. FUCK.
Allowing VOTERS to decide if they want cheaper internet or not is COMMUNISM SOCIALISM MARXISTIST! REAL FREE Market Capitalism is allowing MONOPOLIES to STRANGLE us!
I live in a very rural area and I have very fast fiberoptic broadband, provided by a local, not-for-profit cooperative. Absolutely the best Internet service I’ve ever had.
We should absolutely have local broadband providers. The broadband providers want to keep all undeveloped markets yet also won’t provide high speed in those markets because it’s not lucrative for them.
Someone local want to do it? Go for it!
the state in the article is Minnesota
Thanks, clickbait headlines are annoying.
Good news, speaking of, moving from Spectrum to Frontier soon. Anyone care to comment on their services? Frontier is already looking faster on uploads, downloads and pricing. Concerned there’s a hidden negative lurking around the corner lol.
I can’t speak for elsewhere, but Frontier’s speeds around here are shit and they have a lot of down time. They’re a worse option than Spectrum. They’re what people turn to when Spectrum shuts them off for non-payment.
It feels like you never can win in life. 😔
Frontier is good when it’s fiber. Frontier is bad when it’s DSL. Depends on what they offer to your area.
My area is fiber, 500/500.
I will say yeah - if it’s fiber, you’ll be okay.
Or worse if the only internet connection you can get in your area is dial-up.
Ur fucked mate. Spectrum is god tier next to frontier. And spectrum is rotten dog shit. Sorry.
Well, shit… 💩
If it makes you feel any better I love your username
It does help a little bit lol.
Wow big isp is pathetic feeling so threatened over the little guy
It’s absolutely insane that we would protect corporations from public competition. Restricting public options is absurd, just another example of why things have gotten so shitty and expensive. It’s absolutely apparent that our government is controlled by big money corporations.
