alt Hacker NewsLast I heard, plenty of non-satellite internet providers have also taken billions from those programs, then pretty much ignored the associated obligations.
And it's not a "Trump" issue, either. The rot also thrived under Biden.
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hypercube33 • today at 12:20 PM
Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.
The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.
I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.
That pattern extends back to the Clinton administration.