this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
307 points (98.7% liked)

Technology

60532 readers
5465 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
enu
technopagan
307
AT&T “complies” with law requiring cheap Internet by ending a service in NY (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
67 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

AT&T pulls 5G home Internet from New York to protest state affordability law.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] chiliedogg 3 points 6 hours ago

Usually fiber lines that have either been there for decades or the the federal government has been effectively paying them to install for decades decades and they just fucking didn't do it yet.

Lots of those "government surcharges" that aren't quoted in their estimates and show up as a surprise bill were authorized by the government, but go directly to the carriers and are supposed to be used to cover the cost of infrastructure upgrades and extension.