FCC Gives ISP $8k to Deliver Broadband Five Feet from Apple's $5B Campus

Posted by TangerineDream on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:57PM
from the techdirt.com dept.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210615/09130146993/fcc-gives-isp-8000-to-deliver-broadband-five-feet-apples-5-billion-campus.shtml

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Re:FCC Gives ISP $8k to Deliver Broadband Five Feet from App... by LinuxBender on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:08PM (#27545882)

This is not specific to them. I am getting $6k back for each fiber connection I have connected, paid by the FCC. I don't know the name of the program.

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Re:FCC Gives ISP $8k to Deliver Broadband Five Feet from App... by seasily on Friday June 18, 2021 @04:58PM (#27554973)

Journalists be like "oh no they gave money to big company" "oh no they gave money to small company without know-how" "oh no he's billionaire he should build Internets for free"

TLDR: More or a whiny rant than anything resembling facts or data

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Re:FCC Gives ISP $8k to Deliver Broadband Five Feet from App... by FridayoLeary on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:03PM (#27544496)

Government bureaucracy in action.

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Re:FCC Gives ISP $8k to Deliver Broadband Five Feet from App... by google234123 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:46PM (#27544805)

It's hard to avoid not wasting 8000$ when spending billions...

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Re:FCC Gives ISP $8k to Deliver Broadband Five Feet from App... by dharmab on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:01PM (#27544913)

8000./9000000000. == 8.888888888888889e-07

Scaled to a $150,000 salary, this would amount to a waste of 13 cents.

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