On: The unreasonable fight for municipal broadband

[beams_of_light]

We already did this. CLECs popped up and offered DSL and cable internet services for a while, throughout the late 90s and early 00s.

Here's the real reason competition doesn't pop up in the footprint of the incumbents - when they do, the incumbents sue them into submission.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/one-b...

[glasss → beams_of_light]

They sue and buy each other out, it's happened repeatedly across every industry that ma bell was broken up into.

[Finnucane → glasss]

rinse and repeat.

[walrus01 → beams_of_light]

the modern trend is for cable operators to amalagamate themselves together, if you look at the investment group that bought Wave/RCN/Grande and similar as an example.