How New York Got Screwed Out of the Internet of the Future

For the past six months, life has been miserable for my dry cleaner. A small business in Greenwich Village, Jerri’s (“Cleaning the Village Since 1964!”) has relied on Verizon’s DSL internet access for years. DSL is our era’s version of dialup. It’s excruciatingly low-capacity: Dialup works by dividing frequencies over a copper phone line, making …

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