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Wasn’t Austin part of experiment using abandoned cable / lines for a super fast ultra high speed WiFi product in that shitty city ??

When did it become a thing for people to toss around profanity like crazy on FR? I don't post much, but I've been seeing it a lot, and the rule is right in front of everybody when you're posting: Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts. - maybe the younger crowd doesn't have much respect for FR and its founder, who knows

Anyways, there was a project about 15 years ago or so, that was going to buy up existing fiber, etc. that wasn't being used (aka the "dark fiber" from some failed dot-coms) and provide true high-speed internet all over the town (Time Warner and AT&T weren't getting it done).

There was talk of WiFi everywhere as well, but as far as I know, nobody ever got it deployed, either because this was just as smartphones were about to take off, and the mobile carriers, as shoddy as they can be, were pushing speeds along fast enough, that there was never a need, or because they were at the end of the dot-com bubble.

Regardless of those projects, where I live in Austin these days, I have four choices for gigabit fiber - Time Warner/Spectrum, AT&T, Google, and Grande (local company). All of them are for under $100 as well.