Comment Re:I don't know what's scarier about this article (Score 1) 111
Being that in most area we have the choice of only one broadband provider. So we are reliant on taking what we can get. If we can have Broadband internet at the Local Town level, vs. State or Federal level. We can have internet and still be close enough to local government to control what goes on.
MaBell on the other hand was just what everyone used in the US. So we had to suck it up and pay for a monopoly.
The thing is with a municipal Internet. the carriers can still dominate the market, as they could the the Towns ISP. It is that they just won't get paid as much as charging everyone $70.00 a month.