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Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

That’s what the subsidies are for.

Yeah I’m not in favor of that, not again. The US has provided funding to ISPs to be used explicitly in expanding rural broadband access, we’ve done it on multiple occasions. Every time ISPs simply pocket the money and do nothing.

Fool me once, twice, three times…

So hey, if the US wants to have the FCC do it themselves, just hire crews to lay fiber, then sure. It’ll be inefficient and expensive, but it would say least get done. But I’m not in favor of giving a dime to the existing ISPs…

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