> after decades of predatory behavior, slow speeds, and high prices by regional telecom monopolies.
Plus some serious fraud as well: cable customers and taxpayers paid into various universal service funds for decades without actually providing the rural access we all paid for repeatedly. The FCC of course is being very gentle [1], not wanting to hurt any corporate feelings, and we shell out more billions to help them out [2] in case they didn't steal enough the first few decades.
So this is just infuriating when communities want to provide their own broadband -- because cable will not ever -- and the same fraudsters jump in their way.
Plus some serious fraud as well: cable customers and taxpayers paid into various universal service funds for decades without actually providing the rural access we all paid for repeatedly. The FCC of course is being very gentle [1], not wanting to hurt any corporate feelings, and we shell out more billions to help them out [2] in case they didn't steal enough the first few decades.
So this is just infuriating when communities want to provide their own broadband -- because cable will not ever -- and the same fraudsters jump in their way.
1. https://www.fcc.gov/rbap
2. https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/fcc-approves-20-4m-rural-...