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I thought the ISPs already got 400 billion for expansion, they ended up keeping the money, and not following through. http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromi

• linsomniac 2y ago
  Q.com has recently been going around our town laying fiber. This is CenturyLink. Back in 1995 I was working at QWest (now Century Link), and there was a neighborhood in West Omaha that was a trial for fiber to the home. QWest got a tariff increase approved, to pay for deploying fiber to the home for rural customers, by the year 2K. They never seemed, in any real way, to take steps toward that. In fact, in the later '90s they were actively NOT deploying fiber to DSLAMs in neighborhoods, to give good DSL, because doing so would allow CLECs to have access to put equipment in neighborhoods. So we all had to suffer with whatever DSL we could get on cable runs that went back to one of two switch buildings serving the town. Now, 30 years later, they're finally laying fiber. This is after the city is just finishing up laying their own fiber lines to every home and business in town, and I'm imagining that is partly responsible for the telco upgrades.