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Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet–Kaleigh Rogers https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network
"[it's not just] cost, though it is prohibitive for many Detroiters, but also infrastructure. Because of Detroit’s economic woes, many Big Telecom companies haven’t thought it worthwhile to invest in expanding their network to these communities, Nucera told me. The city is filled with dark fiber optic cable that’s not connected [...]—relics from more optimistic days."