Tue, Jan 26th 2021 6:19am
Karl Bode
As we ve noted a few times, there s an underlying belief in American tech policy that if we just keep
throwing money at entrenched broadband monopolies we can lift US broadband out of the depths of mediocrity. But as we ve noted more than a few times, heavily subsidizing a bunch of regional monopolies, while not doing anything about the conditions that created and insulate those monopolies, doesn t result in much changing. It s especially ineffective when you don t really punish ISPs for decades of taking taxpayer money in exchange for network upgrades that almost always, like clockwork, wind up unfinished.