[HN Gopher] Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet ___________________________________________________________________ Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet Author : thunderbong Score : 87 points Date : 2023-05-25 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (coloradosun.com) (TXT) w3m dump (coloradosun.com) | dabluecaboose wrote: | I had a brief moment of hope that this might mean decent internet | would be available to me, before remembering the entire reason I | don't have fiber internet in-unit is because my condo HOA is a | bunch of boomers who turned down the install. Kickin' it | 2007-style with my DSL | samtho wrote: | This is infuriating and would have led me to start a smear | campaign against the leadership ultimately leading to a vote of | no confidence. | ilyt wrote: | > Senate Bill 152 was promoted by the cable industry as a way to | prevent wasting taxpayer money on infrastructure projects, like | municipal internet. | | Yes, I'm sure it was to "not waste taxpayers money" and not to | remove competition... | | Hell, why cable companies had a say in that in at all? | fetus8 wrote: | NextLight is truly an incredible service. | SplitVengeance wrote: | Another longmonster here. Totally agree that NextLight is | awesome. However, as someone that runs a nonprofit in town, I | wish that business/nonprofit pricing was more reasonable. | lp251 wrote: | a fellow longmonster! | polpo wrote: | We are legion! Love my NextLight. | oh_sigh wrote: | What's it like living in the big city? I'm just a little | Niwoter over here with no hope of ever getting Nextlight. | MetallicCloud wrote: | I'm in Erie and get Gigabit. It's not symmetrical, but it's | the best internet I've ever had. | cashsterling wrote: | It is proof that municipal internet can be awesome and is | probably the way most municipalities should go over time. | | For those who don't know, Longmont Colorado's Nextlight | internet service provides symmetric 1Gb/sec speed for 50 USD | per month and they don't spy on your traffic. | | It is the most reliable residential internet service I have had | to date and is more reliable than the commercial internet at my | places of work in Boulder. | 0000011111 wrote: | What is the data cap? | jffry wrote: | 2.6784 petabits is the most you'll be able to pull in a | month ;) | lp251 wrote: | there isn't one | bobwaycott wrote: | I don't brag on Chattanooga, TN often, but when I do, it's | always about the municipal symmetric gig fiber--CHA/EPB was | the first to do it in the US, it's always been cheap, it's | more reliable than anything else anywhere I've been, no data | caps or throttling, held off a Comcast lawsuit trying to stop | them (so Comcast went to the state to legislate away | meaningful competition), and (afaik) there's no spying on | you. | | I was lucky enough to build a bunch of the software used | consumer-side to enable signing up for and managing fiber | internet/tv/phone service, was brought in to establish and | run their first internal software team, and built even more | cool software to make tech support real-time, improve the | lives of CSRs, and more. And they're now getting into quantum | computing. Truly a great group of people trying to take care | of their city, and every time I run into anyone, I'm still | impressed by what they're doing. | the_pwner224 wrote: | It's $70 per month. The $50 rate is for only for customers | who joined years ago. If you move to Longmont and sign up as | a new customer you'll be paying $70. | | The pricing isn't super cheap, but it's very fair and the | service quality is good. No data caps, symmetrical speed, | good reliability. No IPv6 support though. They also recently | started offering 2.5 and 10 gbps for $150/250. | thcipriani wrote: | +100 Yay, Longmont! | | My service has been rock solid: | https://photos.tylercipriani.com/2023-05-25_next-light.png | jahlove wrote: | Does any state (short of maybe California, I suppose) make it on | the front page of HN as much as Colorado? | thomasjb wrote: | Principality of Sealand? | simlevesque wrote: | New York ? | hesdeadjim wrote: | Well, we're a very polarized red/blue state, a tech hub, and | the source of most of the water for the entire southwest. | kyrra wrote: | Colorado has not been a purple state in 8+ years and is going | more solid blue by the year. In the 2022 election, there was | one thought to be close statewide election. It was a blowout, | 55.9% dem, 41.3% GOP. The 2020 presidential election had very | similar results. | | https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/colorado/ | hesdeadjim wrote: | Aggregate stats are nice when it comes to presidential, but | we still have a bunch of reps like Boebert who cause havoc | in DC. | caseyohara wrote: | Colorado used to be very polarized, but that's not so true | anymore. It leans pretty strongly blue now: | | > Biden won Colorado with over 55% of the vote, and by a | victory margin of 13.50%, an 8.6 percentage point improvement | on Clinton's victory in the state four years prior, the | strongest Democratic performance since Lyndon B. Johnson in | 1964, and the first time that it voted for a presidential | candidate of either major party by a double-digit percentage | since Ronald Reagan in 1984. | | > In this election, Colorado weighed in as 9.1% more | Democratic than the nation as a whole. The results | established Colorado as a Democratic stronghold, rather than | the Democratic-leaning battleground state it had been for the | past three election cycles. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia. | .. | epmatsw wrote: | It helps that the Colorado Republican party is about as | ineffective of a political group as I've ever seen. If they | were even moderately competent Boebert's district, Colorado | Springs, and to a lesser extent the new district | (Caraveo's) would be much redder than they voted the past | cycle. | donatj wrote: | The actual difference is almost certainly moot at the end of the | day since the ISPs are all in bed with the feds, but the concept | of getting my internet from the same institution (read: | Government) that brought us the patriot act sounds less than | ideal. | wolrah wrote: | You're thinking about the federal government. This is about | local governments developing last mile networks for the benefit | of their residents. | pessimizer wrote: | Better to give access to people who don't need the Patriot Act | to go through your stuff at will. | | I don't think your city/county/state is administered by the | feds. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-05-25 23:00 UTC)