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US Government to spend $65B on broadband expansion
- whoosh3 4y agoFrontier advertises symmetric 1GB service, but it doesn't always work that way.
- andrewstuart 4y agoThere's 140,000,000 homes/dwellings in the USA. $65,000,000,000 / 140,000,000 dwellings = $464.28 per dwelling The government should offer $464 per home to any ISP/communications company that can demonstrate symmetric gigabit Internet inside that home on the condition that the home has a one year subscription. Things would happen then.
- metadat 4y agoAT&T already offers symmetric gigabit fiber service in some areas, though it costs more like $1000/yr. The US gov seems broken, hasn't done anything noticeably new and good for me since ObamaCare.
- blinded 4y agoMy old apartment used to have gig fiber, was super cheap too 80 bucks a month.
- rasz 4y agohttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5... "By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up."
- Proven 4y ago[dead]