Comment on US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly what will happen and they won’t use to the grant money towards what it meant for.

  It big grift and Biden gave it to them. Remember he is a centrist who caters to the rich.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Remember we paid for every home in America to have fiber optic internet in the 90s. They took the money, ran, and faced no consequences.

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    • bobman@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On the contrary, I bet they got their dicks sucked real hard while going on an extra-long vacation.

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    • MelodiousFunk@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Attachment: media.kbin.social ↗

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  • kiranraine@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean he’s always been considered a moderate. The voting system encouraged him through since we can’t get voting reforms to pass. What I wouldn’t give for ranked elimination style voting or something… I’m so tired of being continually screwed by the system and it encouraging the gerrymandering that happened in my state despite our own laws against it

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• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No different from the last time the government gave them billions of dollars for nothing.

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• Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Having been in the broadband delivery business at all levels, I sadly report that small ISPs can’t compete in this marketplace to begin with. Reason being they don’t have the investments needed for last mile delivery. If they had the money needed to install landlines, or buy frequency leases, or fly a global satellite network then they wouldn’t be a small ISP. The best that they can do is develop resell relationships.

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  • greenskye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Part of the reason they can’t compete is cause of all the bullshit roadblocks the existing players put in their way. This was made readily apparent anywhere Google fiber tried to rollout and all of the crap they had to deal with to just roll out fiber.

    It’s not that they don’t have the money to install the infrastructure, it’s that they don’t have enough money to fight all the legal battles just to do their jobs.

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    • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not the existing players, your government. Telephone companies gained right of way from your state because everybody wanted a telephone. Cable companies made a deal with your municipality for right of way by paying for it with a non-competeme clauses. Power companies did the same thing. Why would they put millions of dollars worth of infrastructure in the ground for anything less? Your state and local government, and by extension you, sold it to them.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only ISPs that can compete are ones using existing power line infrastructure, so utility companies and cooperatives.

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    • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tried that. You get a lot of errors in power line delivery.

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      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My grandmother lives in a very rural area and gets gigabit because of her cooperative. They do work in some places at least.

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• BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That wasn’t always the plan?

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🎶 Tale as old as time 🎶

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