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The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where's-my-dsl-dangit dept.

Jamie noted that Cringley has a piece about the US Broadband situation. He talks about where we were and where we are: 'not very fast, not very cheap Internet service that is hurting our ability to compete economically with the rest of the world' and about the $200B the phone companies got to make it that way.

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  1. Re:Broadband in Holland by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1, Troll

    1) We really did pull Europe's bacon out of the fire.
    2) We really did lose control of the military industrial complex during the cold war.

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