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I haven't been more excited for a company and their model like this before. Everything they do just seems to... make sense. I really wish them best and hope the bureaucrats won't catch up.

I'm imagining in the US they will be met with a bunch of hurdles and legal stuff due to "lasers bad"

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Pretty sure one of the local ISPs here in San Francisco (Money Brains) already uses lasers for their consumer network (as opposed to their business network, which is something else iirc)

The reason it will be hard in the US overall is that Comcast lobbied their monopoly into local law across the entire country, and the fight to revert it is fought one city at a time it seems. I don’t think Comcast will reign like this forever, but things are going to be shit for many more years.

AFAIK Monkey Brains uses plain old radio frequencies for their wireless backhaul.

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