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Despite the Universal Service Fund paying for decades, some $8 billion a year to telcos (plus more coming from Pai's FCC work) yet rural broadband is still far
by imglorp 5y ago
Despite the Universal Service Fund paying for decades, some $8 billion a year to telcos (plus more coming from Pai's FCC work) yet rural broadband is still far from universal. Those CFO's had a huge head start and a golden subsidy still arriving daily. They still aren't touching rural.
- jeffbee 5y agoNot defending the behavior of the local telephone companies, but 8 billion dollars isn’t anywhere near the scale of investment that rural broadband would require in the USA.
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 5y ago8 billion dollars a year, for many years