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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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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh no, they will lose out on all that efficiency from the free market

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 year ago

If only they had Comcast, they could experience the joy of 10G internets.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

By 10G I assume you mean a monthly data cap of 10GB?

[-] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it's 10G, so much higher than 5G. The only thing better would be 11G.

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