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Jul 7, 2023Liked by Fight to Repair Newsletter

And the one most ignored, most critical, least recognized and to date most impactful to users/subscribers/rate payers/taxpayers - our #Telecommunication/#BroadbandNetworks.

The monopolies, enabled by states’ legislative and congressional autocracies, have succeeded in BREAKING the Internet as we once knew it and expected it to be as an affordable, accessible and interoperable Internet for ALL. https://youtu.be/ws8aELfgtH8

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Excellent point - U.S. consumers pay much higher prices for much lower quality broadband and cellular access than other countries. I should note also: Telco lobbies are vehemently opposed to Right to Repair and reliably lobby against R2R laws.

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