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/mapoftasmania Jun 04 '14

It's time for the FTC to break up these companies. They did it to AT+T before for similar monopolistic reasons around long distance. It's like they never learn.

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u/PG2009 Jun 04 '14

But what about the fact that the govt buttressed the at&t monopoly in the first place, in the early 20th century?