AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law
AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law
Current users have 45 days to find an alternative.
Current users have 45 days to find an alternative.
American for-profits are so hysterical about not servicing poorer people at cost that they'd rather cut services to everybody rather than be forced to do it.
Am i wrong in thinking the hardware was built through government funding, using taxes AT&T is likely not paying?
Not only that, they took the money to build out and pocketed it.
Oh fun stuff, in Canada and the USA, the governments actually gave companies hundreds of millions dollars to build fibre optic networks. The companies proceeded to do NOTHING and the governments did nothing about it.
I’d look it up to back up my sources, but my internet connection is so slow. I’d call that irony, IF ONLY I COULD LOOK UP THE DEFINITION
Correction, hundreds of billions of dollars. >$400bn as of 11 years ago.
New York’s broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand our broadband infrastructure in the state,” the company said
Like they've ever paid for broadband build-outs!
We the people have paid the ISP industry as a whole over $400bn (as of over a decade ago in 2014) to build out high speed Internet and they just took the money and told us to fuck off, and Congress let them.
Burn the ISPs down and nationalize the wires.
They’re probably being paid to not service rural areas. Can’t have them getting informed and making better choices.
That's what you get when you allow corporations to rob you blind for decades.
They don't have fiber in the state at all and a guaranteed 200 MBPS is quite difficult to do over fixed wireless.
“While we are committed to providing reliable and affordable internet service to customers across the country, New York’s broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand our broadband infrastructure in the state,” the company said in statements provided to CNET and Ars Technica.
This is blogspam. While Ars Technica put this quote near the beginning of their article and wrote an article afterwards to put it into context, this short article gave AT&T the very last word.