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Wasn't Biden going to build out the broadband infrastructure to reach rural communities? What happened to that project? Did it get DOGEd?
I don’t know if it’s related to Biden but lots of small towns in New Hampshire have fiber, meaning better internet than a lot of big coastal cities.
Billions have been given to telecoms for ages to build out infrastructure to rural areas and it always fails. The ISPs say oh its so expensive, we only got this tiny fraction done, and the government nods their heads and gives them billions more when they say theyll do it next time, and the same thing happens over and over.
Damn, why is the world like this? Or at least this country?
I mean, I know the answer is corruption, corporatism, neoliberalism, and capitalism. But, like, why are those things the way the world is? It didn't have to be this way...
It happens up here in Canada as well, so not just a USA thing, at least with the telecoms.
And ya it really sucks.
Yeah, billion$ that got bogged down by state level politics, telecomm company resistance, and lack of Democratic party backbone.
I don't know how much momentum was even left to get DOGE'd.
That sucks...
I mean, it's a huge logistical feat. But it's not like nothing's been done on the same scale before. The people have roads, they have landline, I don't see why they can't have fiberoptics.