They were already paid for in the 1996 Telecommunications Act with tax breaks. They took the money but never delivered the infrastructure upgrades that they agreed to. We were promised a faster cheaper internet by 2006 in return for a change in the rules that allowed all these mergers.
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They were already paid for in the 1996 Telecommunications Act with tax breaks. They took the money but never delivered the infrastructure upgrades that they agreed to. We were promised a faster cheaper internet by 2006 in return for a change in the rules that allowed all these mergers.