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Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband (www.techdirt.com)

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Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband::Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the "worst connected city in the U.S." thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn't really a mystery: consolidated monopoly/duopoly power has resulted in a broken market where local giants like AT&T and Charter don't have to compete on price, speeds, availability, customer…

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[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha hardly. I grew up in Cleveland. I fully expect us to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every week, every year

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Browns tried like hell to lose the last two games but the officials just wouldn't let them.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'll take what I can get

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

This thread aged perfectly for Cleveland 🙃