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The FCC wants states to stop killing municipal fiber networks that put cable to shame

12
Jun
2014

Over the past several years, we’ve seen brave state legislatures rise up to tackle the most dangerous threat to the American way of life: Small towns that hate their incumbent cable companies and want to build their own broadband networks. DSLReports points out that Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler has written a new blog post where he points out that some towns and cities have successfully built their own high-speed fiber networks and that those municipalities haven’t yet succumbed to communism. In particular, Wheeler singles out the case of Chattanooga, Tenn., where the city now offers citizens 1Gbps Internet service for just $70 per month, or less than a quarter of what Comcast charged when it first rolled out

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