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Not to mention the municipalities that benefit. There's a perverse incentive to pick the vendor with the highest price, since the muni will net a higher dollar
by ndespres 10y ago
Not to mention the municipalities that benefit. There's a perverse incentive to pick the vendor with the highest price, since the muni will net a higher dollar value on the kickbacks.
I'm interested in seeing more about using erate funds to pull fiber and invest in other infrastructure, especially if it's then turned over to a private operator. Do you have any more info about who is doing this, and where?
- Spooky23 10y agoI was wrong about the ERate thing -- it wasn't a prison, but a juvenile detention center. Kiddie prison is considered a school. See: http://usac.org/sl/applicants/beforeyoubegin/non-traditional/eligibility-table.aspx http://usac.org/sl/applicants/beforeyoubegin/non-traditional...
- ndespres 10y agoThanks for the link and the correction. I'm going to look into pulling a list of contractors who have used erate funds for infrastructure upgrades which mainly benefited a private prison telco rather than the incarcerated juveniles.