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Originally Posted by PilotMan
He might be paraphrasing a bit, but this op/ed piece from The Hill is the closest I could find.
Rural broadband subsidy programs are a failure. We need to fix them. | TheHill
I think this opposition piece from The Wired, is good at explaining the FCC's proposed change in the definition of "High Speed" from 25mpbs to 10mbps and saying it's all good. The money should have been spent to bring a min of 25mbps service to rural areas. Over 100 billion has been allocated to plans and to date, 61% in rural areas have access to that speed. You'd think that a program that has been in place for over 8 years might have done a little better.
https://www.wired.com/story/redefini...n-rural-areas/ |
I live in Roswell Georgia which is far from rural, and my only option is DSL. I'd love 10 Mbps, much less 25. I don't know what I will do if att kills their dsl service, because no one will come install anything better to my house (neither Comcast or Att)