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White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding
(www.theverge.com)
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Or just contracting with fiber layers directly to lay fiber.
It would be simpler to just do it when they update the interstate highways…. But they sat around with their thumbs up each other’s asses too long and can’t wait for that.
We did this though, in the early '00s. Look up "dark fiber". The infrastructure is there, but everyone refused to use or maintain it.
The next step would have been to make ISP a state provided utility, and in corpo-murica that's just tooo commie to accept.
We did that! Then we promptly undid it '\__(°~°)__/`