On: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

[malnourish]

That's fine though, as long as they're not actively campaigning and lobbying to keep entities from entering the field in the first place.

[munk-a → malnourish]

No it isn't fine - the fact that the monopoly is developed enough to suppress competition is already a bad thing - these guys need to be broken up hard.

When they additionally lobby to stop locals from fixing the problem - that's them rubbing salt in the wounds and I'm glad they're doing it, it's getting less technical folk to wake up to the BS.

[malnourish → munk-a]

I think I did a poor job communicating what I meant.

I agree with you, the current status quo is abhorrent.

Were there to be competition, some providers offering poor deals is fine. That isn't the case though. Thank you for articulating.

[ehsankia → malnourish]

Do we know that they aren't lobbying? I'm not familiar with CenturyLink for Comcast absolutely is all over the US.