Comment by PaulHoule
10 hours ago
I dunno if DSL-based ISPs were going to last in the US. I mean, in a big country the range limits of DSL make it hard to compete with cable. I get 20Mbps at my location with fiber-to-the-node, but people a few miles down the road get 10x that speed with Time Warner cable for the same price. In some place like the Netherlands or South Korea it might be different, but not here.
DSL is infinitely faster than a nonexistent cable wiring that will never be financially viable to provide.
These companies were already paid to wire up the US with fiber using taxpayer dollars.
and they took the money and didn't do it and didn't get prosecuted
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