President Joe Biden is kicking off a more than $42 billion plan to give every American household access to high-speed internet by 2030. The initiative is the next stage of Biden’s push to invest in America ahead of his reelection bid. White House officials compared the plan to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s effort to bring electricity to rural America in the 1930s.
Let’s see how much of this money goes into the major ISPs pockets like last time.
Yep it seems like once a decade this same thing plays out. Billions of dollars are spent by the feds to push for broadband, nothing actually happens except the funds get sucked up by the ISPs who claim it wasn’t enough for them to do any meaningful push for expansion.
The only way I see something like this working is if the federal government started their own ISP and did it themself. Of course that would be ripe for corruption too. Maybe if they setup a trust with specific rules that couldn’t be broke in terms of profits earned.
Never enough cocaine 🐽
Maybe AT&T will pay out of pocket until the money they already got is used to actually lay down fiber lines.
What a joke. These companies have been paid 3x over for the EXACT SAME THING. See BTOP and ARRA. The companies took the money and ran.
Not even a half measure to where we should be already. “High Speed” Internet is considered anything over 25 Mbps. That’s pitiful.
Have we, the taxpayers, not already paid billions upon billions to these telcos to do exactly this already?
A few times now.
Oh, again? They should structure it to pay for results, not just handouts to “build infrastructure.”
Yes but this is America we’re talking about, the goal isn’t to actually improve anything, it’s to filter money from the working class to the elites through the government.
I would be fine with this if the stipulation was breaking up the ISPs. We really need the federal government to bring down the trust busting hammer.
Here we go again.
Oh boi money, money, money, ISP who has monopoly on their respective areas probably.
Oh that’s a pretty
boldobvious move.I went years with no internet. It’s largely impossible today.
If you build up a system and make it necessary, give the people the means.
Now let’s see who profits.
Yay, more taxpayer money to maximize profits for businesses.
How about you connect some ‘internet deserts’ up? No one deserves to be stuck with less than 25Mbps, let alone the pitiful 250Kbps some remote people are lucky to get.
And guarantee every citizen a minimum of 25Mbps for free while you’re at it (completely pie in the sky, but I can dream)
And it needs to actually be 25Mbps. Not advertised speed, but actual speed. Ideally up and down.
Great as long as everybody gets at least symmetric gigabit with no data caps.
How many starlink satellites would that buy?
