The Telecoms Industry Spends $US230K a Day To Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks
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If broadband in the United States sucks, you can thank the telecoms industry, which is apparently so obsessed with maintaining our current crappy internet infrastructure that it spent a combined total of $US234 ($319) million lobbying against faster, cheaper competitors during the 116th Congress.
According to a new study conducted jointly by Common Cause and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, telecoms giants spend nearly $US230,000 ($313,766) a day on average in the course of their work to thwart any legislation that would disrupt their ironclad grip on the broadband marketplace. Comcast reportedly the worst offender spent more than $US43 ($59) million in the last congressional session alone, with AT&T trailing at $US36 ($49) million spent.