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

Re:That's chump change

[The-Ixian]

And yet they cannot even afford to upgrade their aging transit system...