Comcast Treats City to Fiber After Suing It For Installing Fiber

insult news , residents of Chattanooga ! Comcastwill soon propose its 2 Gbit - per - second fibre net serviceto some 200,000 customers in the area . Why insulting ? Because just a few geezerhood ago Comcastsued Chattanooga ’s utility board for building a vulcanized fiber meshing , hale resident to use its own first-rate slow internet instead .

Comcast finally lose the lawsuit against the Chattanooga Electric Power Board , but only after it prevented hundreds of thousand of people from getting to use the city ’s lightning - firm gigabit net . battle of Chattanooga ’s internet is the fast in the nation by many measures , and costs just $ 70 a month . ( Comcasthas yet to reveal how much its “ Gigabit Pro ” inspection and repair costs , but it fathom expensive . )

The move is peculiarly contemptuous since Comcast just announced this new very limited service . There will also be rollouts in Atlanta , Florida , and California . But it seems obvious that Comcast ’s target Chattanooga because Chattanooga is now famous for consume its own fiber . After all , the cityis also a modelfor President Obama ’s plan toloosen Comcast ’s strangleholdonAmerica ’s deadening , shitty internetby clearing the way for more municipal broadband labor .

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It should amount as no surprisal that Comcast itself has traditionally been the one to build those barrier . Thegiant Cthulhu of a corporationhas sue other local internet divine service providers , like CenturyLink , in an attempt to forestall them from any competition . Ripped from the Evil Capitalist playbook , the companyis profiting from its proportional monopoly , quite nicely — and screwing over helpless Americans in the outgrowth .

So salutary luck in Chattanooga , Comcast!Everyone there hates you .

[ ComcastviaArs Technica ]

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