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It's the USDA that provides grants for small community ISPs but their rules are clownshoes. your service area can't overlap any other service area, regardless o
by genewitch 3y ago
It's the USDA that provides grants for small community ISPs but their rules are clownshoes. your service area can't overlap any other service area, regardless of how awful it is. Well, technically, that's not true. If there's 1.5mbit in the area, they won't fund you - and it's not 1.5mbit in practice, it's 1.5mbit advertised.
I went around and around with the government saying that at&t obviously doesn't want to maintain this network so why not get something up before they let the copper rot in the ground.
Nothing doing.
- Sabinus 3y ago>your service area can't overlap any other service area, regardless of how awful it is That's regulatory capture by the majors. They don't want actual competition to reduce the value of their 'investments' so they avoid competing with each other, and smother all other parties in legislation and lobbying.