just like pipes, just like roads

yeah, now imagine if the local government decided only 2 car companies got to drive on your local road. and for you to drive your own care it would be 20k now, and 1.8k a month

If you have an already established community (say a subdivision in the US), you have a limited area that you can dig those cables (typically the stretch of lawn/grass between the sidewalk and street. And if you have ever increasing numbers of companiies wanting to come in and dig to install additional cable lines then sooner or later those homeowners are going to get fed up with that

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Eventiually the next installer is going to "accidentally" cut another company's cable while they are in the process of installing their owb

@Chijohnaok as my previous point, imagine how many cables could fit in something like a city storm drain. Those big ones that people can easily stand in

that probably already happens

that is what i meant by "have enough companies"

but it would be more frequent

but the alternative is only like there be 1 or 2?

you want CABLES in stormdrains?

you ancaps really are crazy

*facepalm*

@Arch-Fiend more like something the size of a storm drain, but a whole different system.

Well, in the commuiity that I live ( a subdivision suburb of Tampa) those storm drains are prbablt about 18 inches in circumference. Now I grew up in Chicago and I realize that some underground utility tunnels there are man sized but that is not the rule everywhere

well youd need a second stormdrain then

we are not even allowed to have that option

all im saying is this seems to be an infastructural problem

Arch...those storm drains in Chicago can sometimes be man sized in height so the utlilities are run through a smaller pipe within the larger underground storm drain tunnels

all of this is just possibilities but are barred by local governments leaving your only option to basically by your space FROM a huge ISP.

this is how they get a monopoly

all of these options are expensive

they are not even options

thats my point

because they are expesive and public nusances

how are ISPs not already a public nuisance?

name a single ISP who's customer service is steller

none, because they don't need to be

they are, your talking about making them bigger nuisances without any payoff

A competing company can't even worry about expense if they can't even explore the option due to regulation

you install a new large storm-drain like pipe line once, then get a lot of space to had lots of new lines for a while, any that is a nuisance?

these pipes which could be used to put power lines in so that you don't lose power every time a tree falls or a drunk driver takes out a light pole

yeah customer service may increase by 10% now that theres 3 competing isps and not just 2 but then you also have a 30% increase in infastructural problems which will effect the overall service of all 3 that rely on that infastructure

you realize that stormdrain either falls on the ips or the taxpayer right?

idk, how much more does it cost to maintain a concrete pipe in the ground over time verse the always falling over telephone poles?

how much does it cost to built it?

were talking about building a 5-10 foot tall wall underground that runs beside every road in the united states

basicly probably costs as much as the road does

That is never going to happen---cost prohibitive

over who knows how many years. idk, if i have the money, i seems like it might be worth while building it in a city or two and then letting other isps rent space in it for cheaper than the current cost to get on a pole.

maintenance would start to pay for itself