Comcast Outage Renews Calls for a Non-Corporate-Overlord Internet Provider in Seattle

Is this how you feel right now? Robert Ullman

I'm typing this right now thanks to the tech-wizardry of The Stranger's IT staff, which has our offices connected to the Internet on a backup DSL connection. The rest of you sucka Comcast customers, reportedly across Capitol Hill and other parts of Seattle, are screwed. Comcast says it's working to repair a fiber-optic cable in Madison Park and doesn't know when its service will back up and running. (This comes on the heels of CenturyLink, Comcast's major rival in town, apologizing just last week for misleading a customer.) Call it the #Comcastageddon. A sampling:

Too bad there isn't another option, like, a non-corporate-overlord Internet provider that we could do more than bitch about! Except there could be. Upgrade Seattle, a group advocating for a city-run gigabit Internet network, sent me this statement:This is why we need a strong, accountable municipal Internet service throughout Seattle." Over to you, Mayor Ed Murray.