AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  American for-profits are so hysterical about not servicing poorer people at cost that they’d rather cut services to everybody rather than comply.

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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Am i wrong in thinking the hardware was built through government funding, using taxes AT&Y is likely not paying?

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  • xkbx@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Correction, hundreds of *billions" of dollars. >$400bn as of 11 years ago.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not only that, they took the money to build out and pocketed it.

    $400bn pissed away as of a decade ago

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s what you get when you allow corporations to rob you blind for decades.

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• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re probably being paid to not service rural areas. Can’t have them getting informed and making better choices.

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• sovietknuckles@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “While we are committed to providing reliable and affordable internet service to customers across the country, New York’s broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand our broadband infrastructure in the state,” the company said in statements provided to CNET and Ars Technica.

  This is not an original source. While Ars Technica put this quote near the beginning of their article and wrote an article afterwards to put it into context, this blogspam gave AT&T the last word in their short article.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They don’t have fiber in the state at all and a guaranteed 200 MBPS is quite difficult to do over fixed wireless.

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