Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband::Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the “worst connected city in the U.S.” thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn’t really a mystery: consolidated monopoly/duopoly power has resulted in a broken market where local giants like AT&T and Charter don’t have to compete on price, speeds, availability, customer…

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Oh no, they will lose out on all that efficiency from the free market

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If only they had Comcast, they could experience the joy of 10G internets.

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By 10G I assume you mean a monthly data cap of 10GB?

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No it’s 10G, so much higher than 5G. The only thing better would be 11G.

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There’s nothing free market about how cable companies operate.

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Sure there is. They are natural monopolies that form in the free market. The free market isn’t a good thing. It’s what gives us things like child labor and corporate owned towns.

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Lol, so all the regulation protecting them is “natural”?

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