While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant progress in expanding rural home internet access, these gains are proving temporary as resources dwindle.
The thing is, you are already subsidizing it. The US government has already paid for them to have access, ISPs just took the money and never did the job.
If you bought and paid for a car, and you never actually received it, I imagine you would not be happy if someone told you “cars are unsustainable anyway”, and “if you had an economic reason to own a car, you should build your own”.
The thing is, you are already subsidizing it. The US government has already paid for them to have access, ISPs just took the money and never did the job.
If you bought and paid for a car, and you never actually received it, I imagine you would not be happy if someone told you “cars are unsustainable anyway”, and “if you had an economic reason to own a car, you should build your own”.
Oh yea, we should absolutely claw back the money those companies pocketed… but we should also stop investing so much money in rural access.