Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

Thu Jun 3 07:23:36 UTC 2021

On 6/3/21 09:15, Mark Tinka wrote:

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>   In South Africa (we don't have city-owned/operated fibre access)...

That's actually untrue - I just remembered that the City of Cape Town 
actually does build fibre. It's not very clear to me to what extent they 
operate it, particularly beyond supporting municipal departments:

https://www.capetown.gov.za/Media-and-news/City%20digs%20in%20smartly%20to%20install%20fibre-optic%20cabling

It's possible some other cities are doing the same, but the message I 
was pushing is that pretty much all FTTx of note going into homes, 
businesses and data centres is being built and operated by the private 
sector.

Mark.