Sigh. Another government handout to big telecom, just like so many over the past 20 to 30 years. It's pretty obvious that these don't work. It needs to be easier and cheaper to build these networks out to everyday people in the first place.

After the FCC's 2003 Triennial Review, I where they said 'well, fiber is expensive, so we'll override Congress & say fiber is exempt from Section 251, and end Unbundled Network Elememts' (Local Loop Unbundling), it's hard to be excited about stuff like this.

This should be something hopeful & exciting. But instead of a healthy competitive market, we fund exploitative systems.

It's not even a comprehensive rollout. These stagnant providers receive a ton of money then just fail to roll out. New York for example is back in court over just this, but whether anything ever improves is uncertain.

fraud scheme