Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own
via arstechnica.com
Fantastic! It looks like the "digital divide" is reversing itself in dramatic fashion. Small towns are getting exponentially better internet service than people in the big cities.
Internet should be a service with some baseline quality expectations, and that the only way to provide this (especially in the markets with few incumbent players, like Toronto) is to provide some baseline of competition that raises the game out of the mud of deep packet inspection and excessive overage charges.
