We’ve funded it multiple times, giving the telecoms billions and then them not doing it again won’t solve anything.
We need to acknowledge that it’s a public utility and those shouldn’t be managed by private corporations.
Pretty much. We paid for the damn infrastructure. It should be OURS.
Paid for it at least 3 times.
Billions of taxpayer dollars to giant corporations who just keep asking for it again a few years later
heres one way to fight back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl-faX6vlg
part of the challenge is laziness. also tech incompetence.
its nice to hear stories of people succeeding and making it look easy.deleted by creator
Unrelated to the fact that giving money to corporations never results in what the money is allocated for, bills can be marked as being immune to government shutdowns. The military, for example, never “shuts down.” There is no reason that any other agency would need to either. Just add the provision in your funding bill that the agency is to be automatically funded at a the previous budget + inflation, in the case no appropriations have been passed.
…And that is why they will not be doing it
This is the best summary I could come up with:
However, money for the program is now running out, and unless Congress reauthorizes the ACP soon, those households — and the thousands of good broadband jobs the infrastructure bill is slated to create — are at risk.
But without the ACP, internet service providers will have less incentive to build high-speed broadband in areas that need it most — and we put at risk the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic investment in closing the digital divide.
Frankly put, it would be a massive mistake to curtail the very program that is helping to make broadband universally affordable at a time when cost is one of the biggest barriers facing households across the nation.
With internet access for millions of Americans and thousands of good-paying jobs on the line, Congress must act swiftly to keep this essential federal program funded.
In order to grow our nation’s economy equitably and sustainably, we must make broadband internet accessible to all Americans, no matter their zip code.
Ultimately, making the internet more affordable would be a win-win for everyone – connecting millions of families to the services they need, while paying dividends in economic growth across the nation through the stability created by good-paying career-oriented jobs.
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