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Didn't we already give the ISPs money to upgrade their infrastructure? Something like $400 billion.
by plopz 7y ago
Didn't we already give the ISPs money to upgrade their infrastructure? Something like $400 billion.
- jessaustin 7y agohttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
- rayiner 7y agoNo we didn’t: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556. Even if that number wasn’t fictional, even by its own narrative it applies to money supposedly paid to telephone companies for fiber deployment. The gist of the argument is that by promising to build fiber, telephone companies got regulators to let them increase phone charges and depreciate phone infrastructure faster than otherwise would have been the case. That’s where the $400 billion comes from. These arguments are all based on the peculiarly of his telephone service was regulated before 1996 (and in the authors view the way it should have continued to be regulated—even though all of Western Europe went away from this sort of rate regulation around the same time the US did). That has nothing to do with cellular, which was always regulated under a totally different regime, and was built more than a decade after these events.