News FCC proposal aims to nix long-term gigabit internet speed goals, pricing analysis

[bit_user]

Municipal internet is bad as municipalities are governments and we cross into very corrupt and uncomfortable territory.

I'd suggest you're probably experiencing a sampling bias, based on only seeing situations where it's not working out well.

Otherwise, I see no reason to think it would be any worse than other forms of municipal infrastructure, which definitely vary, but are quite often deployed and administered competently.

 

[thestryker]

Anyhow this is starting to drift a bit. What the FCC ruling really does is allow all these government programs to be used for rural nonprofits to provide broadband to their communities.

This is still utterly false and nothing has changed since the last time I pointed it out. This change means literally nothing tangible and they could have signed off on any projects that met the 100/20Mbps standards.

The prior administration had their own priorities which set the approval process. This was not in any way dependent on some language regarding the long term goals.