Not only that, they took the money to build out and pocketed it.
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lath@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Am i wrong in thinking the hardware was built through government funding, using taxes AT&Y is likely not paying?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
xkbx@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
Oh fun stuff, in Canada and the USA, the governments actually gave companies hundreds of millions dollars to build fibre optic networks. The companies proceeded to do NOTHING and the governments did nothing about it.
I’d look it up to back up my sources, but my internet connection is so slow. I’d call that irony, IF ONLY I COULD LOOK UP THE DEFINITION
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Correction, hundreds of *billions" of dollars. >$400bn as of 11 years ago.