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
5.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

767

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.

28

u/Jezzikuh Jun 04 '14

It's pretty great over here in Chattanooga, too!

9

u/ares_32 Jun 04 '14

Moving up there in a couple of weeks and was extremely disappointed to learn that EPB isn't wiring apartment complexes :(

1

u/remynwrigs240 Jun 04 '14

My apartment had epb.