Oh Look, More Giant ISPs Taking Taxpayer Money For Unfinished Networks

When you’re a big contractor, with lots of money to spread around, sometimes the powers that be look the other way.

(From TechDirt)

Just ask Verizon, which was given billions in subsidies and tax breaks by countless states and cities in exchange for fiber it never fully deployed. Or AT&T, which routinely receives billions in tax breaks, subsidies, and regulatory favors in exchange for jobs and broadband deployment that somehow never fully materialize.