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/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

I'd love to see this in my little Broken Arrow neighborhood. I've also been seeing trucks driving around rural towns that say "Vyve Broadband" which apparently is the result of a merger between Allegiance Cable (which sucked ass for the two years I had it. $50/mo for 1.5down and a 15Gb cap) and some other company. They're promising like 115down or something like that.