Passing pork barrel funding for rural telcos

After writing (mostly directing you to what Cringely wrote,) Cringely tells us why we have crappy Broadband I was again surprised to read what (a bit old post at IP Inferno) called

Broadband Data Improvement (S.1492)

"Ah, the boring but important department. What is your government doing for you? Passing pork barrel funding for rural telcos and failing to demand better data connectivity from the protected telecom monopolies that they have created... What, you ask, is this 1984?"

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Tags: broadband, Broadband Data Improvement, S.1492