President Joe Biden is kicking off a more than $42 billion plan to give every American household access to high-speed internet by 2030. The initiative is the next stage of Biden’s push to invest in America ahead of his reelection bid. White House officials compared the plan to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s effort to bring electricity to rural America in the 1930s.

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    1 year ago

    Have we, the taxpayers, not already paid billions upon billions to these telcos to do exactly this already?

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    Not even a half measure to where we should be already. “High Speed” Internet is considered anything over 25 Mbps. That’s pitiful.

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    I would be fine with this if the stipulation was breaking up the ISPs. We really need the federal government to bring down the trust busting hammer.

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    1 year ago

    Oh that’s a pretty bold obvious move.

    I went years with no internet. It’s largely impossible today.

    If you build up a system and make it necessary, give the people the means.

    Now let’s see who profits.

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    More than 7% of the country, or more than 8.5 million homes and small businesses, is considered underserved, with internet speed below the government’s standards of at least 25 megabits per second for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads.

    8x slower than the national average according to Ookla… glad to see these fogies are keeping up with the times and using our resources wisely.

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    What a joke. These companies have been paid 3x over for the EXACT SAME THING. See BTOP and ARRA. The companies took the money and ran.