AT&T pulls 5G home Internet from New York to protest state affordability law.

  • BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    Sounds like it’s time for a municipal broadband solution. If AT&T doesn’t want the business, fine. Let’s not force them to take our money.

    • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      They pulled their wireless home Internet service which mostly targets rural areas where companies like AT&T never laid fiber and have started abandoning their copper networks. It’s a lot harder for smaller rural communities to do municipal broadband because the costs are much higher per household. Not impossible, but more of an uphill battle. In some GOP states it’s even outlawed. In NY hopefully people can get grants for them.