Even if it wasn't true, one still needs to ask what they did with the money? A lot of telcos got incentives in the 90's to lay fiber optic but laid some copper and, apparently, pocketed the rest of the money ( http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2006/05/12/telco s-lay-billion-goose-egg ).
So, now, they want more money and a government bail-out for having not delivered what they were paid to do a decade ago.
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Even if it wasn't true, one still needs to ask what they did with the money? A lot of telcos got incentives in the 90's to lay fiber optic but laid some copper and, apparently, pocketed the rest of the money ( http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2006/05/12/telco s-lay-billion-goose-egg ).
So, now, they want more money and a government bail-out for having not delivered what they were paid to do a decade ago.