ms.lane

I’m not sure why people are commenting that I think fiber isn’t real?

Of course it’s real.

But maybe you’re young- Comcast, AT&T, etc, have been given multiple tranches of money since the early 1990s to deliver a nationwide fiber network in the US, they’ve never delivered more than 0.1% of it.

Giving them more money, won’t make it happen.

Giving municipalities (cities, counties) the funds to build out their own fiber networks is good.

Giving more money to Comcast and AT&T to do nothing, is not good, it’s corporate welfare.

just over 12 months here.

Obligatory fuck /u/spez.

As much as I dislike the muskrat, is this fiber actually real?

ISPs in US have been given billions of dollars, multiple times to bring Fiber out and each time they’ve pocketed the cash and done nothing.

Starlink at the very least, exists.

• If this is going to counties and cities to build out municipal fiber, then screw StarLink.

• If this is going to AT&T, again, for the fourth time to build this fiber, then no, give it to StarLink since AT&T will never actually build out that service, fourth time is not the charm.

I take umbrage with StarLink’s notion that Fiber is slow to build out though - the single biggest expense and time consuming part of rolling out a GPON network is getting it from the street to inside a premesis.

Guess which part StarLink still has to do and it isn’t any cheaper…