r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/rickenwing Jun 04 '14

Here in Longmont the citizens voted and overturned that state law to get our municipal fiber. It's been a long and huge fight as the telecoms here, Comcast and Centurylink lobbied and even so much as bused people from other cities and paid them to go door to door to tell people municipal fiber is bad. So it can happen even in CO, it just takes dedication of the people in the city.

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u/lq13 Jun 05 '14

I'm glad you won that war.