We don’t have to. Municipal broadband initiatives have been around for more than 10 years.
I’ll pick the first one I find on Google for a search of “2014 municipal broadband install”. The first result I got was Chattanooga, which was installing 1gig in 2014 (https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gi...). Not the fastest thing available, but certainly still quite respectable in 2024. Not many people with a gig today cry that it’s unusably slow.
But, let’s just check on Chattanooga’s current speed.
We don’t have to. Municipal broadband initiatives have been around for more than 10 years.
I’ll pick the first one I find on Google for a search of “2014 municipal broadband install”. The first result I got was Chattanooga, which was installing 1gig in 2014 (https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gi...). Not the fastest thing available, but certainly still quite respectable in 2024. Not many people with a gig today cry that it’s unusably slow.
But, let’s just check on Chattanooga’s current speed.
Apparently, in 2022 they were rolling out 25gig symmetric (https://epb.com/newsroom/epb-news/25-Gbps-internet-service-n...). That’s light-years better than I can get in a suburb outside of Seattle.
Dunno, municipal broadband seems like it can be just fine.