Ask HN: Do you think ISP should be allowed to duopolize a community? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you think ISP should be allowed to duopolize a community?

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Post by informationslob » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 5:02 AM UTC

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #9

toast0 wrote: post #7

Is your dad's place in a city? If so, your city may have a franchise agreement with local telecom providers that compel them to service any residential address in the city. If he's not in a city, there may be a county franchise agreement, although those are less likely to compel service at every address. When you say the community he's living in, if that's an apartment community or some senior living community or con…

> But no, there's no general compulsory universal service for internet. The Universal Service Fund has been supplying funds for broadband deployment for decades. However, ISPs have a long history of pocketing those funds without the promised deployments (eg:Frontier@WV,Verizon@PA) - usually w/o meaningful consequences, due to regulatory capture.

This is what I was thinking. I thought they were supposed to provide service within a certain range. I mean the apartments around have internet, McDonald's has it and so does everyone around me. I feel like they just don't wanna serve here.

Re: Ask HN: Do you think ISP should be allowed to duopolize a community?

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Post by informationslob » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 5:04 AM UTC

toast0 wrote: post #7

Is your dad's place in a city? If so, your city may have a franchise agreement with local telecom providers that compel them to service any residential address in the city. If he's not in a city, there may be a county franchise agreement, although those are less likely to compel service at every address. When you say the community he's living in, if that's an apartment community or some senior living community or con…

Its a trailer park, full of Spanish people so its neglected. In a honesty I heard someone was stealing cable internet by splicing the cables with trailers that did have internet. And now they refuse to serve there. Thats what I'm hearing when I ask the residents.

Re: Ask HN: Do you think ISP should be allowed to duopolize a community?

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Post by informationslob » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 5:05 AM UTC

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #8

So your 4 potential wireline providers are XFinity(Comcast), AT&T, Spectrum(Charter)and Atlantic(Cogeco). Some things I'd try. I'd ask all 4 ISPs to send someone to do an on-site review for service availability because serviceability addresses can be wrong. If that doesn't help, there is a good chance one/all of those providers have received government funds in the past or near future [1] for deployment. They may be…

On-site exam may be needed because three of those point to xfinity and att&t told me sorry they can't do anything.

Re: Ask HN: Do you think ISP should be allowed to duopolize a community?

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Post by News-Dog » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 9:55 AM UTC

informationslob wrote: post #10

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #8

So your 4 potential wireline providers are XFinity(Comcast), AT&T, Spectrum(Charter)and Atlantic(Cogeco). Some things I'd try. I'd ask all 4 ISPs to send someone to do an on-site review for service availability because serviceability addresses can be wrong. If that doesn't help, there is a good chance one/all of those providers have received government funds in the past or near future [1] for deployment. They may be…

I called. My local government , hopefully I will get a response, no one answered but I left a message.

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