• oppy1984@lemm.ee
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    17 hours ago

    Not entirely, my ISP is a family owned regional cable company and they took the grant and have rolled out fiber across multiple counties.

    I get what you’re saying about the mega corps, yeah they just pocket a lot of the money. But the smaller ISPs are being smart and investing in their infrastructure to be able to complete.

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      6 hours ago

      Frontier took the money and said, “Watch us trounce the big boy monopoly here”