[georgemcbay]

Also what's the point when significant portions of the US have de facto regional broadband monopolies?

I mean clear labeling is always better than not, but if you have no actual options how much does it help?

Where I live my choice for actual wired broadband is: Spectrum. That's it. My only other viable Internet option is 25 mbps DSL from AT&T. So if I don't like the service from Spectrum: tough luck. If I'm looking at the label before ordering Spectrum and don't like what I see: tough luck.

And my situation isn't particularly rare.

[bradknowles]

Yup, welcome to my neighborhood in Austin. Literally two miles in any direction, and you've got at least three gigabit-class ISPs, but not here. Spectrum and AT&T DSL are it for "broadband" providers.

And I checked, and no T-Mobile and Verizon do not provide 5G fixed wireless service in this neighborhood. That was going to be my backup. AT&T LTE is available here, but it's no faster than DSL and during times of high load, it's much worse than DSL.

FML.

[hiatus]

Are nutrition labels useful in food deserts?

[m463]

Thank goodness there is a wide variety of choices in food desserts. But I have never seen a nutritional label at a donut shop.

[zamnos]

In case you're not being facetious (hard to tell over the Internet and all), food deserts is a term referring to "an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food".

Additionally, the FDA now requires nutritional and allergen info to be provided for restaurants, though it is sufficient to make them available online.

Here's a direct link to the doughnut store Krispy Kreme's nutritional facts for their Original Glazed® doughnut.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/kkd-e1-images.kktestkitchen.com/eco...

Or Dunkin' Donut's nutritional facts:

https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/nutrition.pd...

and allergen info:

https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dam/dd/pdf/allergy_ingr...

FDA's fact sheet about this:

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/fdas-implem...

[m463]

to be clear, I didn't notice the missing s. feel free to downvote.

[hiatus]

Do you think less information is better than more information in this case?

[kube-system]

A lot of consumers are going to have two options for the first time soon due to 5G rollouts from T-Mobile, Verizon, and others.

And maybe you can use that label to more easily convince your local politicians that they should be giving more companies access to the poles.

[KerrAvon]

I can only get one brand of milk at my store. Is it important that I know whether it’s lactose-free?