The FCC is pushing forward with initiatives to help increase the availability of broadband.
FCC Continues To Push Broadband Into Every Home : Read more
FCC Continues To Push Broadband Into Every Home : Read more
ISP's in the Minneapolis Metro are running fiber directly to people's homes."FCC signed agreements with multiple ISPs that insured these companies would invest over $1.5 billion in their networks by the end of 2020"
Straight into their pockets. Govt has been giving them money for nothing for a while. And then they act like running fiber everywhere costs too much and start throttling
My questions is you see the article states
"The FCC has also agreed to help fund these initiatives by investing over $2.8 billion to connect schools and libraries with broadband connections in excess of 100 MB/s."
I wonder if they meant Mb as it is a HUGE difference.
I agree that the federal programs are complete crap for education. When I was working as the network admin for a local school district we could only get funding approved for one location so we had to come out of pocket to install fiber from the IT office to all of the schools in order to get them internet access since the local ISP would not allow us to lease lines to the schools then pipe internet over the leased lines. In a very rural county this was a hard financial strain as two of the schools where 20-25 miles away from the IT office in the county seat.