• Jentu@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m surprised they’re saying anything about this since it immediately made me remember that garbage they pulled.

      • RoverStoker@beehaw.org
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        Retired telecom worker here:

        Every single time your telecommunications provider goes to DC to lobby against their taxes they promise “Please oh please please if you’ll just lower our taxes we pinky swear to expand broadband. We’re going to expand the reach of DSL, we’re gonna lay cable for Uverse internet, we’re invented this thing where high speed internet goes over your electrical grid. We promise you we can do the thing if only you’ll cut our taxes.”

        So DC does and guess what happens? Job cuts. Cut back on techs needed to actually do the work. The money is used for stock buy backs, to buy a company or two (bought at a high price then sold at a loss of course) and the CEO bails with a golden parachute:

        https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/05/12/atts-ceo-steps-down-with-a-64-million-gold-plated-retirement-plan/?sh=3ede18b759bd

    • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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      Omfg this

      Where is the bill to take all infrastructure made using this public money and give the infrastructure to the public?

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      They surely do love that corporate socialism when daddy sam is paying but “free markets” where they are a monopoly when they are raising my bill every year.

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      I wish. I also wish I could be connected to the fiber that is literally 1 mile away from my house.

      • SoManyChoices@lemmy.sdf.org
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        I have fiber but my town is building muni fiber that will be $25/mo cheaper for the same speeds. They just finished another segment. It stops 200 ft south of my property. They’ll be back to finish the area in about 18 months after they do most of the north side of town first.

      • Spitfire@pawb.social
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        I wish I had fiber as an option at all in our area.

        Only options are comcast or DSL. Both suck.

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        I just moved, but my previous house has fiber 100 feet away, but the ISP wouldn’t hook me up because they insisted that they needed at least 10 houses to commit in a neighborhood before they’d put service in it. I tried to get my neighbors on board for 3 years before I sold my house to move an hour away. Still no fiber, but there’s no fiber to tease me with now, heh

        • Weaselmaster@beehaw.org
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          I have fiber running LITERALLY through my back yard, because they couldn’t be bothered to string it from pole to pole for my neighbor, but yet they ‘Can’t’ run service to my building with 7 households/customers.