Let's see how much of this money goes into the major ISPs pockets like last time.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Yep it seems like once a decade this same thing plays out. Billions of dollars are spent by the feds to push for broadband, nothing actually happens except the funds get sucked up by the ISPs who claim it wasn’t enough for them to do any meaningful push for expansion.
The only way I see something like this working is if the federal government started their own ISP and did it themself. Of course that would be ripe for corruption too. Maybe if they setup a trust with specific rules that couldn’t be broke in terms of profits earned.
Never enough cocaine 🐽
Maybe AT&T will pay out of pocket until the money they already got is used to actually lay down fiber lines.
Have we, the taxpayers, not already paid billions upon billions to these telcos to do exactly this already?
A few times now.
I would be fine with this if the stipulation was breaking up the ISPs. We really need the federal government to bring down the trust busting hammer.
Not even a half measure to where we should be already. "High Speed" Internet is considered anything over 25 Mbps. That's pitiful.
Oh, again? They should structure it to pay for results, not just handouts to "build infrastructure."
Yes but this is America we’re talking about, the goal isn’t to actually improve anything, it’s to filter money from the working class to the elites through the government.
Here we go again.
Oh boi money, money, money, ISP who has monopoly on their respective areas probably.
Yay, more taxpayer money to maximize profits for businesses.
Oh that's a pretty ~~bold~~ obvious move.
I went years with no internet. It's largely impossible today.
If you build up a system and make it necessary, give the people the means.
Now let's see who profits.
How about you connect some 'internet deserts' up? No one deserves to be stuck with less than 25Mbps, let alone the pitiful 250Kbps some remote people are lucky to get.
And guarantee every citizen a minimum of 25Mbps for free while you're at it (completely pie in the sky, but I can dream)
And it needs to actually be 25Mbps. Not advertised speed, but actual speed. Ideally up and down.
Great as long as everybody gets at least symmetric gigabit with no data caps.
More than 7% of the country, or more than 8.5 million homes and small businesses, is considered underserved, with internet speed below the government’s standards of at least 25 megabits per second for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads.
8x slower than the national average according to Ookla... glad to see these fogies are keeping up with the times and using our resources wisely.
USA: has multi billion dollar companies
also USA: gives them lots more money
How many starlink satellites would that buy?