Gigabit goal “prejudicial” to satellite and wireless

Ah, so money changed hands. Got it.

  • Rujo@lemmy.world
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    Major telecommunication companies collected billions of dollars through state rate increases and tax breaks since the 1990s under the promise of building high-speed fiber-optic networks, but largely failed to deliver the fully realized infrastructure.

    So we pay, nothing happened, and now out of fairness, deal with it?

    Brilliant!

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      I think they got like 100 billion or more, might have been several hundreds, in the Obama years, never delivered. Then a later administration, I think Biden’s, gave them another such deal.