I have over 25 years in tech - mostly network engineering.
I see you fighting the good fight and I wish you luck.
Unfortunately, many people - some of them on this site - have blinders on when it comes to this and will refuse to listen even if you spell it out in crayon.
I got tired of trying to explain it and am hoping the “repeal” sticks for at least the next eight years so they can see how wrong they all were for themselves.
The problem here is that this is a thing that people think they should have at gigabit speed all the time, everywhere, and they don’t care how it gets there.
Who is going to pay to upgrade the infrastructure to faster speeds? Who is going to pay to extend the infrastructure into markets who don’t have as much of it? Who is going to pay to support that infrastructure, the people, the utility trucks, the repair equipment, the office buildings, the 24x7 coverage.
Market forces drive prices down and performance and availability up. The capitalist impulse to create wealth (real wealth, not frikking tax dollars taken from people like you and me) is what will drive that most efficiently and expeditiously.
And the problem is, those forces are largely invisible (especially leftists, who REFUSE to believe in the invisible hand of market forces that control how much of something is available and how much people are willing to pay for it) so the end result is, many people don’t care, even many here on FR. Someone else can pay for it. Who has the big pockets, the money that can be ‘freely’ applied?
What does that sound like? It sounds like the people who think the government can pay for it, and the government can regulate it. And when you look at the people who are lickety-split for this, they are the same people who view everything else in this same manner. People who worship government because they think it will provide this thing for them.
My last project was managing the network track of Intel’s acquisition of Altera.
Before that I managed the network track of Aerojet’s acquisition of Rocketdyne.
I know a little about networking, having been in this business for over 40 years.
But it is complicated concept for most when the antagonists are pumping them full of propaganda every hour of every day and, thereby, making it part of popular culture.
The big content providers intend to prevail.