US Government to spend $65B on broadband expansion

Posted by andrewstuart on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:41AM
from the brookings.edu dept.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/08/18/the-benefits-and-costs-of-broadband-expansion/

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Re:US Government to spend $65B on broadband expansion by andrewstuart on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:45AM (#32234336)

There's 140,000,000 homes/dwellings in the USA.

$65,000,000,000 / 140,000,000 dwellings = $464.28 per dwelling

The government should offer $464 per home to any ISP/communications company that can demonstrate symmetric gigabit Internet inside that home on the condition that the home has a one year subscription.

Things would happen then.

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Re:US Government to spend $65B on broadband expansion by metadat on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:52AM (#32234374)

AT&T already offers symmetric gigabit fiber service in some areas, though it costs more like $1000/yr.

The US gov seems broken, hasn't done anything noticeably new and good for me since ObamaCare.

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Re:US Government to spend $65B on broadband expansion by blinded on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:14AM (#32234517)

My old apartment used to have gig fiber, was super cheap too 80 bucks a month.

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Re:US Government to spend $65B on broadband expansion by rasz on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:43AM (#32235139)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

"By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up."

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Re:US Government to spend $65B on broadband expansion by whoosh3 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:39PM (#32241314)

Frontier advertises symmetric 1GB service, but it doesn't always work that way.

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