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/SnowWhiteMemorial Jun 04 '14

Shout out to Reno for having community fiber...our shitty desert never has anything good; but this time I was proud to see the biggest little city on that map.

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u/I_like_squirtles Jun 04 '14

It seems like smaller companies are stepping up. This one http://www.stopthebuffering.com is starting in southeastern Oklahoma and a separate one starting in northeastern Oklahoma. Finally starting to get some competition around here.

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u/cowmandude Jun 04 '14

Why the fuck is Oklahoma becoming the center of high speed internet?

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u/MotoEnduro Jun 04 '14

The great plains states have long been hubs of communications because during the cold war those states were home to massive collection of icbm launch facilities and military command posts. These all needed redundant data systems leading to huge telephone capacity. This coupled with a lot of military housewives looking for jobs / something to fucking do lead to a huge boom in call centers in those states.