Just republicans setting things up to fuck us again.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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Seperate infrastructure and service!
If the companies responsible for laying cable and wires weren't tied to a single brand we'd instantly break the monopolies by town that we currently have. They would also focus on maintaining the infrastructure and growing the network instead of the profits going elsewhere.
This is the same administration who is going all-in on oil and coal for energy production. Nobody should be surprised.
Every other country in the world is trying to make their population smarter and more connected, and we're trying our hardest to make our people stupider with less access to information.
Why have we allowed the most corrupt, despicable people to make decisions for us?
Because society has frowned on punching people who desperately need it in the face!
Thank God we're also eliminating cheap solar panels from China. Who wants an energy source so unreliable. It literally didn't even shine for most of the entire time. Sure it's been lit for just a few million years but whatever are you gonna do when it eventually runs out of helium and hydrogen?
I'd prefer the new ford trash diesel hybrid....just start the engine on gasoline, switch to diesel, then just dump your trash for that week in the back and wait for the big ass black plume to reduce yo just a healthy soot. It can get 23miles per trashcan!..sorry, 2.3 downhill miles. Isn't it great? Mr.TrashyBurn!
Get ready for your shitty internet to cost even more.
As someone who has had download speeds above gigabit all throughout the 2020s so far (and for under $60/mo as well), it blows my mind that there are parts of the country that still don't even have 10% of that.
Like what I'm saying is that even cell phone towers can do multi-gig speeds these days FFS, so there's no excuse even for rural areas to not have at least a couple of reliable gigabit options available, no matter where you are in the country.
If they can figure out reliable 5G in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, surely they can install an antenna on grandpa's farm and beam a 2.5Gbps signal directly to his rooftop. I mean my 1400Mbps line comes in through a 5G gateway sitting in my kitchen window sill and it has been just as reliable as fiber for me, even with a giant pine tree in the way blocking line-of-sight to the tower. ISPs need to stop making up excuses, and actually start investing those outrageous monthly fees they collect into better infrastructure.
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From a Swede with gigabit internet: didn't you Americans already give a lot of money to your ISPs to build fiber? Maybe time to demand a ROI?
Please don't remind me.
I wish these companies would all just go bankrupt and die already.
Kinda hard when they’ve gone full mafioso and split up the country into territories so that we only have like one choice and have to be a customer. Because capitalism runs on no competition and monopolies, right?
that was ages ago, they took the money and never developed it, they started to do something last year with biden, but trump reversed. Just like with HIGH RAIL system in california, trump blocked it all.
$100+ a month is normal, and gigabit internet is not available everywhere
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But WHY???
You don't want to stifle innovation by adding a bunch of regulations, do you?
/s
Money
10 years from now USA is gonna be a 3rd world country with all these cuts.
From Europe it has already looked like a 3rd world country for at least a few years.
It's already a 3rd world country, has been for some time now.
Trump was always obsessed with "shit hole countries". Now he's turning the US into one of them.
He wants us to be exactly like Russia. Complete shithole company run by the oligarchy, who live lavish luxury lives.
Certainly seems that way.
No regulations to support a reasonable standard of living for the peasants.
Oligarchs mooching off everyone else.
Americans have lost so much in the last few months, not only with the bullshit spending bill but just the erosion of the rule of law and the democratic process.
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Not even gonna take 10 years. By the end of Spray Tan's term the country is gonna be a complete toilet.
Assuming he doesn't find a way to stay in office indefinitely.
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Broadband quality:
Great
Good
Decent
Whatever ✅
FCC: Doing our job deemed extraneous.
other country: lets bring in gig speeds Japan: futile we have and are testing terrabytes.. America: i like cheese.. govt cheese
Terabit per second speed is not impressive for backbone links. I could go to the office tomorrow and grab all the stuff needed to install one on our line through the alps, just by bundling 3 links of 400 Gbit/s with stuff we already have, and I'm working for a small to medium ISP.
What you are likely referring to, is the 1 Pbit/s over 1800 km demonstration that NICT presented at the OFC this year. That's impressive.
Neat. I’ve heard of backbones and T1-T3 lines. Butt that’s crazy, and makes sense.
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