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Rural America votes red, which got them this kind of policy for broadband: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15106850/fcc-lifeline-program-reverse-federal-over
by cmurf 9y ago
Rural America votes red, which got them this kind of policy for broadband:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15106850/fcc-lifeline-program-reverse-federal-oversight-ajit-pai https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15106850/fcc-lifeline-pro...
Instead of the kind of policy they had with telephones, with the Universal Service Fund, and the like, to subsidize the massively higher deployment cost. It's not just in the middle of nowhere, the run length are vastly longer. Of course it's going to cost more money. Electrical lines, water and sewer do too.
- djrogers 9y agoI don' think you read that link you posted properly. The proposed expansion of Lifeline to broadband was tied up in court because it was entirely Federally decreed, whereas the actual law passed by congress said that it had to be handled by the states. Pai pulled it back from the courts, and determined that following the law as written was a better idea. Go ahead and kick the FCC and Pai around for screwing up net neutrality, but the Obama-era ULS expansion thing was never going to happen the way the FCC had written those regulations.