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

Posted by msmash on from the crossing-the-line dept.

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.

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  1. Re:I'll take it over Comcast and a cap! by PIBM · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please kindly refrain from using the term America when refering to the United States (in this case, California?). I hated the internet services while in San Francisco myself.. I had a capped (WTF???) 24mbps (maximum speed available in the middle of SF ???) / 2 mbps (that`s last millennium!!!) from AT&T (they had signed something to be the only one providing service through the building, with fiber to the premise), for a ridiculous price, a bit more than twice what I pay for uncapped 60/30 in a remote region in Quebec, Canada, before accounting for the USD / CAD exchange rate!

    So yeah, US / California sucks for internet speed, but that`s not like this everywhere in America.