Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.

dukethorion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not entirely, my ISP is a family owned regional cable company and they took the grant and have rolled out fiber across multiple counties.

  I get what you’re saying about the mega corps, yeah they just pocket a lot of the money. But the smaller ISPs are being smart and investing in their infrastructure to be able to complete.

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Frontier took the money and said, “Watch us trounce the big biy monopoly here”

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• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Never say never. There are actually several areas where I’ve seen fiber build out from government grants.

  That said, they are EXCEPTIONALLY rare and typically scumbag ISPs pocket the money with no consequences, since nobody who writes these laws sets up consequences for failing to deliver.

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• PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not true, just got 2Gb fiber in rural WI through a federal grant.

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