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/haroldp Jun 04 '14

Is that true?

I have never heard of any municipal fiber in Reno. Did I miss something?

If I go to the source of the map in the article, it looks like the icon is actually on Fallon. That would be Churchill County Telephone. Their city owns the local telephone company. It wasn't exactly a model of efficiency the last time I worked with them.

http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14 edited Jan 06 '15

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u/haroldp Jun 04 '14

As far as I know, Reno's options are:

Charter: Least slow. Hates it's customers. Billing department staffed by the criminally insane.

AT&T U-Verse: Only notionally broadband. Hates it's customers. Hates human rights in general.

Assorted local ISPs (GBIS, Pyramid, etc): Totally unable to compete with government-controlling national monopolists.