Comcast told him it would cost $17,000 to speed up his Internet. He rallied neighbors to build their own fiber optic network instead
A group of Los Altos Hills, California residents are standing up to internet giants Comcast and AT&T. Tech-rich but internet-poor, residents of the Silicon Valley neighborhood were fed up with slow broadband speeds of under 25 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 3 Mbps upload — the federal definition of a house not served by …