Yet another instance where big business fails to provide reliable affordable broadband yet the local government gets blocked trying to find a way to fix the situation.
I used to work for Verizon who won a statewide franchise to build out fttp in New Jersey. They argued that with only having to deal with one set of regulations/tax rate they would be able build most of the state and not ignore underserved areas and bring competition to the market. They fell short and not because they didn't make money on fios but to redirect focus on cell service where they make even more money with less overhead. The worst hurt by this are the rural areas that not only don't have fios, but the old copper plant is failing and when the residents get a BPU hearing the company slaps Band-Aids on the copper. Statewide franchise should have been enforced to make the concentrated lucrative markets balance out the less profitable!!!!
This is actually a world wide issue as well, our copper networks are being replaced by fibre but only in towns not sure how people will cope of system fails. we have good cell phone coverage but very expensive rural broadband which doesn't seem to run well enough to do much in the way o trading for people trying to do different things on computers.
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