It remains to be seen what the results will be of the FCC’s Tom Wheeler officially stating yesterday that “Meaningful competition for high-speed wired broadband is lacking” in the United States, but hopefully one result will be that The Evil Cable Empire will stop spending millions to try to prevent people like you and e from building their own, publicly-controlled, solutions. The US broadband giants Comcast, Time-Warner, AT&T, and Verizon are constantly lobbying against public broadband, claiming it is failure prone and will harm municipalities when programs do happen to fail. Because, you know, they care so much about the welfare of the average community, right?

But while they keep raising your bills and giving you crappier service to fund their preferred form of competition, i.e.: “who has the most lobby money and best legal teams”, the city of Chattanooga is proving them wrong. And creating the fastest internet in the United States at a competitive price while they’re at it. Go a little more in-depth with this Guardian piece (you probably won’t see this news on the front page of Yahoo for some reason), or take a look at Chattanooga’s “Gig” project firsthand.

Thirty-three seconds to download a two-hour, high-definition movie? I think I’m moving.