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Free the Internet Connections!

1. The Private Monopolies

Current (2025):

  • 3 ISP Giants: Comcast, Charter, and AT&T (control 80% of market)
  • Prices: $50-150/month (for service that costs $5/month to provide)
  • Speeds: US ranks 15th globally (behind Romania!)
  • Rural Areas: 25 million Americans have no broadband (digital divide)
  • Data Caps: Artificial scarcity (costs ISPs nothing, but they charge $10/50GB)
  • Net Neutrality: Dead (ISPs can throttle sites, charge for priority)

This is Infrastructure, Not a Luxury:

  • Work from home requires internet
  • School (especially post-pandemic) requires internet
  • Healthcare (telemedicine) requires internet
  • Government services (applying for benefits) requires internet
  • **Internet = Public Utility (like water, electricity)

2. The Build

A. Fiber Optic Network- Nationwide

Goal: 1 Gbps Symmetrical (upload = download) to EVERY Home

Current Fiber Coverage:

  • 43% of homes have fiber access
  • But: Often only one provider (monopoly pricing)

Build out:

  • 150 million homes need fiber (57% of total)
  • Install fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)
  • Municipal/co-op owned (not private ISPs)

Cost:

  • $2,000 per home × 150 million homes = $300 billion
  • (Urban cheaper ~$500, rural more expensive ~$5,000, averages to $2k)

Timeline: 10 years (2026-2035)

Employment:

  • 100,000 workers (fiber installation technicians, civil engineers, and electricians)
  • Perfect for: Telecommunications workers (from former private ISPs, now public utility workers)
B. 5G/6G Cellular Network - Public

Goal: Nationwide 5G Coverage (no Dead Zones)

Current:

  • Private carriers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) control towers
  • Rural areas ignored (not profitable)
  • Expensive plans ($50-100/month for unlimited data)

Public Cellular Network:

  • Government-owned towers (like roads - public infrastructure)
  • Any phone works (bring your own device)
  • Flat rate: $15/month unlimited data (cost + 10% overhead)

Build out:

  • 250,000 new cell towers (fill gaps, especially rural)
  • Upgrade existing 600,000 towers to 5G

Cost:

  • New towers: $250,000 each × 250,000 = $62.5 billion
  • Upgrades: $50,000 each × 600,000 = $30 billion
  • Total: $92.5 billion

Timeline: 5 years (2026-2031)

Employment:

  • 50,000 workers (tower construction, RF engineers, and technicians)
  • Perfect for: Electronics manufacturing workers (cell towers use sophisticated electronics, antennas, and signal processing)
C. Public Wifi - Ubiquitous

Goal: Free WiFi Everywhere (cities, parks, transit, and rural towns)

Deployment:

  • 50,000 cities/towns get public WiFi
  • Mesh networks (each access point relays signal)
  • Transit vehicles (all buses, trains have WiFi)
  • Parks, plazas, libraries, and schools

Cost:

  • $1 million per town/neighborhood × 50,000 = $50 billion

Timeline: 5 years (2026-2031)

Employment:

  • 25,000 workers (WiFi installation, network administration)
D. Data Centers (Public Cloud)

Problem:

  • Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and Google (Cloud) dominate
  • Extract rent ($50 billion/year from businesses, government)
  • Surveillance (collect all your data)

Solution: Public Data Centers

  • Government/co-op owned
  • Host government websites and public services
  • Offer services to co-ops (at-cost, not profit)
  • Open-source software (no vendor lock-in)

Build out:

  • 200 large data centers (across US, redundancy)
  • Renewable-powered (solar + wind + batteries)

Cost:

  • $500 million per data center × 200 = $100 billion

Timeline: 10 years (2026-2035)

Employment:

  • 30,000 workers (data center construction, server technicians, and network engineers)
  • Perfect for: Electronics workers (servers are sophisticated electronics)

3. Total Telecommunications

One-Time Investment: $542.5 billion (over 10 years = $54.25 billion/year)

Ongoing Operations:

  • Fiber network maintenance: $10 billion/year
  • Cellular network operations: $15 billion/year
  • Data center operations: $20 billion/year
  • Total: $45 billion/year

User Cost:

  • Internet: $25/month per household (covers operations + maintenance + expansion)
  • Cellular: $15/month per person
  • Public WiFi: Free (tax-funded)

Revenue (If Charged):

  • 130M households × $25/month × 12 = $39 billion/year
  • 260M people × $15/month × 12 = $46.8 billion/year
  • Total: $85.8 billion/year revenue

Wait, this Generates surplus!

  • Revenue: $85.8B/year
  • Operations: $45B/year
  • Surplus: $40.8B/year (use for expansion, upgrades, or reduce prices)

Actually, let's make it Cheaper:

  • Internet: $15/month (was $25)
  • Cellular: $10/month (was $15)
  • Revenue drops to: $51.5B/year
  • Still covers operations + small surplus

Employment:

  • Construction (2026-2035): 205,000 workers
  • Ongoing operations (2035+): 80,000 workers