[WarOnPrivacy]

> Ultimately what brought fiber to my city was covid. The monetary tsunami unleashed by the federal reserve and the government made it possible for a local private company to build a fiber network.

Same. Federal broadband funds led to fiber deployment here. We went from one ISP to ~10.

We went from 40Mb up w/ 40ms latency for $119 to 1Gb up w/ 4ms latency for $49.

Over 20+ years, I've read dozens of articles about major ISPs receiving government money/incentives (billions in total) to improve consumer options.

This is the first time I've witnessed an internet company keep that promise. Predictably, it wasn't a major ISP.