[HN Gopher] Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet
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Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet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.
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