For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities, cooperatives, and city-owned utilities building their own, locally-owned broadband networks in a bid for better, cheaper, faster broadband.
States in question:
- Alabama
- Florida
- Louisiana
- Montana
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- North Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
Credit to @[email protected] for finding them.
I had to dig for the 16 states:
https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks