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Re: FCC approves T-Mobile and Sprint merger

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> T-Mobile so far is nice here, but for example in Germany is one of the despised companies. that is bullshit

Can you explain why? I am not German but I have fairly significant amount of infrastructure colo'd in Germany - DTAG/T-Mobile/T-Online/whatever is obnoxiously bad. They refuse to peer with neighbouring networks, they hold back deployment of local connectivity (DSL is still the best you can do in 2019?), they demand the doubly charge in the way of Netflix v Comcast. Sending data to/from with any customers on their net…

Despite that they are still regarded as one of the least bad telcos because their customer service sucks much less than that of their competitors (e.g. Telefonica O2, which is a large one, was basically impossible to contact for most customers for months at a time because of "technical difficulties"). Their mobile network is comparably good and all in all they are seen as the premium option on the German market.

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Texas has a quasi private electric grid. It seems like it would be a good model for data too.

ERCOT (Texas electrical grid system operator) is essentially a mutual company/co-op structured as a non-profit, very similar to muni broadband. "ERCOT is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature. Its members include consumers, cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electr…

Yes, that sounds like an ideal organization for connecting municipalities that own right of way and own or eventually take ownership of the fiber on their poles.
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