AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com)

An anonymous reader quotes an article on DSLReports: AT&T is asking California taxpayers to give them $100 million so that it can provide several parts of the state with unreliable, slow and expensive DSL service. Under Assembly Bill 2130 (written by AT&T lobbyists), AT&T would receive $100 million from state taxpayers. In return, AT&T would only need to provide 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload and would have little to no oversight over whether the $100 million is even being used for the DSL service.

Comments

To: California State Govt....

[Anonymous Coward]

Please Piss up a live wire. Take your 20 year old DSL tech and cram it where the Sun cannot shine....
ATT = The Shittiest Company next to Comcast that Exists.
(Hi Comcast! YES, you are STILL the worst!) :-D

Let it begin

[NetNed]

Sounds like the start of negotiations. Counter offer with a dollar.

Re:I'll take it over Comcast and a cap!

[swb]

Yeah, well, you guys are just getting started on mass shootings and we've been doing them for fucking decades. When Charles Whitman was blasting people from the University of Texas tower, you guys couldn't even organize a proper sports riot.

Now we've got so many mass shootings they barely make it above the fold of the paper. You guys have one and you make it seem like it's a big fucking deal. Get over yourselves.

Re:I'll take it over Comcast and a cap!

[mrchaotica]

Compared to Europe, or even some 3rd world countries, North America (Canada and USA) seem awfully backward and old fashioned. So much stuff seems extremely retro or even antiquated; ... the cars....

I hate to break it to you, but we drive the same Japanese cars you Europeans do.

Re:The U.S government is EXTREMELY corrupt.

[tripleevenfall]

Bah, we'll just raise taxes on the rich. What's another $100 million transferred from productive people to lobbyists and the coffers of a megacorp? /California