AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite.

AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Rememinder that as of 2015, the US taxpayer has given $400 billion to ISPs/TelCos on varying conditions boiling down to ‘improve internet infrastructure and access’, and they … didn’t.

    … And no one ever held them accountable.

    http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BookofBrokenPromises.pdf

    Please remember that basically every large monolithic US corporation that currently exists got to their status by being hugely, absurdly subsidized by the US taxpayer, and the US taxpayer’s reward is basically always worse service/product at increased cost.