Now, if we could only get that sad sack BRuin
To offer the same assistance to our ISPs.
Not holding my breath...
Still, not long to wait before the unelected nomark is kicked out :-)
The latest draft of President Obama's $835bn infrastructure economic stimulus package increases the budget for expanding broadband to under-served areas from $6bn to $9bn and includes tax breaks for ISPs that build new wired and wireless networks. While the US Senate is still drafting its version of the stimulus package, its …
The telecoms industry got $200 Billion in tax credit in the mid-nineties in exchange for a promise to bring fiber networks to everyone in the US, and promptly reneged on that promise. Why would anyone think they will act any differently this time? A much better step would be to clean up the mismanagement, fraud and corruption around the universal service fund and other telecoms boondoggles that nickel and dime our phone bills.
You're right about the " promptly reneged on that promise". And that's what's wrong with doing all this without some "we're gonna punish the h3ll out of you" oversight if they don't do what they're supposed to be doing. But then, that should be the case for any "bail out" or "stimulus package"
I, for one, would LOVE to see some real high speed in my neck of the woods. No dsl, no fibre,
cable...maybe. yuuuuck
Paris, 'cos she knows a stimulus package when she sees one.