Pennsylvania gets $6.6 million downpayment for expanding internet access

[Effete Snob]

1. It's unfortunate that we don't have public internet infrastructure

What Verizon and Xfinity have done is to viciously fight any municipal or public internet infrastructure to the extent that we have silly programs like this one.

What this program does is shovel money to Verizon and Xfinity for building out their own networks in rural areas, and then charging those customers out the wazoo to use the internet infrastructure the public paid for.

When we wanted universal telephone service, we made it a requirement for the regional Bell telcos to provide it, in exchange for the monopolies they were given.

Now, we actually give these crooks public money to build stuff and then pay those crooks to let us use the network we paid them to build.

It's very sad.

This is a happy face painted over corporate welfare which simply enriches those who need it the least.