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My impression is that it's a mix -- telecoms only want to upgrade wireline infrastructure where it's profitable (so, more affluent areas), and in my experience, in SF, there is some degree of NIMBYism about internet infrastructure at the street level ("green boxes" and the like) so even if the telecom is willing it can be hard to get consensus from the neighbors.


> telecoms only want to upgrade wireline infrastructure where it's profitable

true

> (so, more affluent areas)

no. criteria is population density, that's what makes it profitable.


Hahahahaha dream on, I’m in the middle of a pretty dense part of a city, but not a rich part, and I have exactly one internet option and it is ass.


Ray Nagin got released yesterday and I get cold sweats in bed thinking if Cox hires him back to unleash some new fresh hell




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