Considering that we gave AT&T nearly $400 billion in the 90s to connect everyone in the US to fiber, I certainly hope they're no longer flowing. It was a giant

Considering that we gave AT&T nearly $400 billion in the 90s to connect everyone in the US to fiber, I certainly hope they're no longer flowing. It was a giant grift. It's taken local fiber ISPs and WISPs (who seem to have been gobbled up immediately) and Starlink to make anything happen. 1: http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BookofBrokenPromises.pdf http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BookofBro... 2: A more recent example from 2024: https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/the-42-billion-internet-program-that-has-connected-0-people https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/the-42-...