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1) Click "Explore the Maps".

2) Click "number of broadband providers" on bottom.

3) Set sliders to color places with 1 provider.

4) The huge areas of green across the US are monopolies.




http://www.broadbandmap.gov/number-of-providers/wireline/bot...

Then click "unserved" to show those areas...

Interesting stuff...

* Unserved = red * served ~ 2-6 providers = green * white = one provider aka monopoly

Lots of white... I wonder how much is due to lack of interest vs "interference" of any sort.




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