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FCC gives ISPs another $563M to build rural-broadband networks
- whenchamenia 7y agoGood luck. I would be happy with even two nines of reliability and 5mb down and 1.5 up. But here I am, a whole hour outside a top 30 metro area, with only one internet option that isn't broadband or hughesnet. Rural people are the forgoten population in the tech progress.
- Accujack 7y agoAgain? They did this regularly with the telecoms, too. At this point it's just a gift to the corporations, no one anywhere believes they'll actually build rural broadband with it.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoIn northwestern Kansas, we got gigabit fiber laid everywhere, thanks to a rider to the hurricane Katrina relief bill.
- Accujack 7y agoSo you're saying the solution to this problem is political pork?
- Fjolsvith 7y agoThe rider was available for any telecommunications company in the US to apply for grants. Our local one did a bunch of homework and got several hundred million on their grant. Of course, they also used the money to lay the fiber, instead of paying CEO bonuses or shareholder dividends.