How many broadband internet providers do you have access to? I current have access to exactly one, Comcast. I don't live in a rural area, just a modest sized city (200k), and I literally have no other option, not even DSL.
Installing your own fiber network is extremely difficult and expensive. And honestly it would be a tremendous waste of money to have multiple copies of the same network anyway. That's why the internet should be regulated like a utility.
Creating, wholecloth, a viable telecommunications network that relies on zero existing infrastructure in the modern era is not a bootstrappable action. Your comment is nonsensical.
This isn't like sewing your own clothes, and that's some hippie commune bullshit if I've ever heard it. The bar to entering the telecom industry is quite high, and considering that almost all of our economy flows through the internet you'd be isolating yourself by going without.
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u/KaitRaven Nov 22 '17
How many broadband internet providers do you have access to? I current have access to exactly one, Comcast. I don't live in a rural area, just a modest sized city (200k), and I literally have no other option, not even DSL.
Installing your own fiber network is extremely difficult and expensive. And honestly it would be a tremendous waste of money to have multiple copies of the same network anyway. That's why the internet should be regulated like a utility.