Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
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Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
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#2Really hope this happens. Our current choice of Comcastholes or AT&T's Slow DSL is ridiculous for a city like Chicago.
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#3As a Chicagoan I'm excited, but also worried it will lead to the incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city, somehow.
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#4Los Angeles will be an impressive feat. The ridiculous number of jurisdictions will generate an ungodly amount of red tape.
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#5LA has had notoriously bad ISP coverage. Most houses in the area only have a choice between one cable provider or going DSL.
Nice to hear AT&T is planning to roll out gigabit fiber in LA as well. http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/att-bringing-gigabit...
For some reason Verizon Fios has avoided LA proper but laid out Fiber along the outskirts and in Ventura County years ago.
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#6As a Chicagoan I'm excited, but also worried it will lead to the incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city, somehow.
> incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city.
What? How?
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#8As a Chicagoan I'm excited, but also worried it will lead to the incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city, somehow.
> incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city. What? How?
http://pols.uic.edu/political-science/chicago-politics
> The Windy City has kept its crown as the most corrupt major city in the country over the last 40 years. But Houston is starting to give Chicago a run for its money.
> According to new research released today by University of Illinois at Chicago political science professor Dick Simpson, there were 45 convictions for public corruption in 2013 (the latest year available) in the U.S. court district that covers the Chicago area. That's way, way above the 19 convictions in Los Angeles and 13 in the Southern District of New York (Manhattan). But Houston had far and away the most pols convicted on federal corruption charges in 2013, with 83.
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#9As a Chicagoan I'm excited, but also worried it will lead to the incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city, somehow.
Don't forget the new "fiber internet tax" they'll come up with to subsidize the losses of their buddies over at Comcast.
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#10As a Chicagoan I'm excited, but also worried it will lead to the incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city, somehow.
> incarceration of multiple public officials and a raw deal for the city. What? How?
While some more recent examples have not yet ended in jail time for city officials [1][2] they have ended up in pretty bad deals for the city.
[1]http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-parking... [2]http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ct-chic...