Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/t-mobile-launches-fiber-internet-service-in-the-u-s-with-a-five-year-price-lock-the-verge.1206351/

Xfinity is basically the only option in my neighborhood. There's ATT DSL but fuck that shit.

it's the same for my area as well, Comcast/Xfinity is the only option available for true high-speed broadband internet. There's much slower speed internet available such as DSL,

AT&T discontinued DSL years ago.

I wish Verizon stuck to their original rollout plans for FiOS so my city (Baltimore, Maryland) could finally have fiber internet. FIOS is available in the surrounding county but not in my city.

When Verizon originally announced their rollout plans for FiOS, Baltimore City and County was on the initial rollout list, then a few months after the initial FiOS rollout list was released, Verizon released a revised FiOS rollout list, and it was immediately noticed that Baltimore City was no longer on the rollout list, but Baltimore County was still on the rollout list.

I emailed Verizon to try to find out why they removed Baltimore City from the FiOS rollout list, and they sent an email to me from their governmental affairs department stating that a pre-existing agreement that the Baltimore City Council had with Comcast precludes Verizon from rolling out FiOS to Baltimore City and they suggested I contact my City Councilperson so I did that. My City Councilperson claimed that there was absolutely nothing precluding Verizon from bringing FiOS to Baltimore City.

Baltimore City did make an attempt to bring Google Fiber to Baltimore City and sent in an RFP to Google but Google didn't choose Baltimore City.

I'm wondering if T-Mobile could be successful in bringing fiber to Baltimore City since they already have their 5G mobile home internet service deployed in Baltimore City.

I wish he'd specify the City in all his posts about Baltimore.  

Rural places like mine won't get stuff like this, but it would be nice to quadruple the speeds we have now for 1/2 the price

Don't worry the government is rolling out fiber to more rural places, wait actually hold on, they're pulling the budget for that and giving it to Starlink, sorry.

While I understand that you can't necessarily run fiber to every home in the US, there should be a major backbone of it to all towns and then people too far away that would need new nodes built to service them would end up on satellite internet like Starlink but pulling some of the funding for fiber is just so stupid.

Dude should look into what the government has done with that broadband fund after three years. (Hint: literally nothing at all and half of the proposed territory is no longer eligible for it despite this.) Also there already is a major backbone of fiber into all towns, the phone and cable systems are on fiber just not at the consumer level.

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Not that Starlink should get anything ever.

Love how nobody in that thread seems to realize that their lack of options is because the government is protecting them from capitalist greed like they always demand.