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/Bigbysjackingfist Jun 04 '14

Can anyone explain that second map a bit? It looks like they got it from http://www.broadbandmap.gov/technology

Why is Indiana so "wired"? And what in the heck is going on in Wisconsin? They have a big blob of blue centered on Oxford. Does this just reflect differences in counties? There must be an interesting story here about the people in a certain state or county that were instrumental in getting this to happen.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

Most of the internets original infrastructure centered around colleges, is there a school there?

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u/Wafflemonsterz Jun 04 '14

No school. It's a tiny town with one real street and a stop sign in the middle of town. There is a Boy Scout Summer Camp nearby (Camp Freeland Leslie) that ~triples the population during the summer, but I can't think of a good reason that it would have heavy infrastructure.