This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a “tech-neutral approach” and lower the average cost of serving each location
In other words don't give the tax payer the best options you can, give them the cheapest options to implement you can.
Musk is a toxic stink in this world.
Does fiber go down when it rains?
I’m so fucking tired of living in this god damned dystopia.
Do something about it then...
PS: maybe you are, if so, Kudos to you... but the majority seem to only rue it
Don't worry, it ends eventually.
This time, it won't.
this reads like an aged alchemist who is convinced he's on the cusp of finding the philosopher's stone
Owh hell no! Just rollout fiber ASAP.
Reminds me of the German Telekom and their unceasing effort to slow down state subsidised fibre deployment.
The subsidies are primarily for towns left behind with bad ADSL (it was below 30mbit average and is now afaik 100mbit), that want to build their own local fibre nets cause nobody else does.
They seem to watch for construction permits and then swoop in and build a few fibre adsl distribution boxes or elevate a street or two with fibre to raise the average speed in town just above threshold. The local net looses the subsidies and usually stops construction or if already built only commercial customers are still allowed to be connected...
Reminds me of the German Telekom and their unceasing effort to slow down state subsidised fibre deploymen
Capitalism is a disease.
It would be a shame if some random accident were to befall those token distribution boxes…
I love it when they reopen construction sites where cables from other carriers were recently buried (after Telekom said no) because NOW they want to provide their shit there too.
DTAG should be a wholly state owned company again.
When we got cable TV and proper broadband internet with it, the previous company relying on the local monopoly got extremely pissed. Every of their services costed the multitude of what competitors, even on phone line, could offer. Most outrageous was ADSL. Competitor ADSL started at HUF5 000 for 384k download speed, topped at HUF15 000 for 2M, per month. The local provider? It started at HUF20 000, for a laughable 256k download speed. Explanation? The parent company thought it was a luxury, because you could just send a hand-written mail instead of the e-mail, get a dish TV with HBO and a tape recorder with a timer instead of torrenting movies, etc.
Federal. Money should go to the poor. Elon musk can fuck off.
Capitalism breeds innovation
If they could put that brain power to innovate on their product instead of innovate on how to fuck people, that would be great!
"Hey, can we provide Fibre broadband to our residents?"
"No, we got a lot of money from Sattelite providers, eat shit and die."
Hey, this seems familiar.
"lobbying" 🙃
Gucci Gulch should be a mass grave
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
