FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
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Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#2This sounds like less of a "let's get mad at the FCC!" situation, but more of a "let's get mad at companies defrauding the US Government" situation.
Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#3This sounds like less of a "let's get mad at the FCC!" situation, but more of a "let's get mad at companies defrauding the US Government" situation.
Yeah, at $340,000/yr, this situation is costing individual Americans less than 1 cent per person per year. Nothing more than a rounding error.
Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#4This sounds like less of a "let's get mad at the FCC!" situation, but more of a "let's get mad at companies defrauding the US Government" situation.
I'm surprised doge didn't cut it - maybe he owns shares in some of the companies.
Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#5This sounds like less of a "let's get mad at the FCC!" situation, but more of a "let's get mad at companies defrauding the US Government" situation.
I'm surprised doge didn't cut it - maybe he owns shares in some of the companies.
No reason to be surprised, it was an unserious effort that didn't look for real fraud, waste, and abuse. They looked for things that could play well to their constituents, like when it turned out the State Department had subscription to Politico (oh the horror, informed public servants making critical decisions?!?!).
Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#6Looks like they all use Starlink and no one uses the FCC-subsidized fiber.
Starlink is nice, but I'd still want the option to switch to an alternate provider if Starlink suddenly raises their prices or otherwise becomes uncompetitive for some reason. I guess they do have cell service out there, though.
I wonder how the copper PSTN is out there, or if it's totally replaced by that fiber.
Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#7Looks like they all use Starlink and no one uses the FCC-subsidized fiber. Starlink is nice, but I'd still want the option to switch to an alternate provider if Starlink suddenly raises their prices or otherwise becomes uncompetitive for some reason. I guess they do have cell service out there, though. I wonder how the copper PSTN is out there, or if it's totally replaced by that fiber.
In a lot of rural places in general, don’t know about Alaska, it was either you got starlink or nothing after the fiber only rules were withdrawn
Which basically means if starlink goes if there’s not another sat vendor … basically there’s nothing. I don’t think any other providers service that far up(hughesnet maybe?)
I’m also not sure if starlink and the others will be forced to do COLR (carrier of last resort) but I think the answer might be “no”.
Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#8We should play whack-a-mole with fraud.
We should ALSO reduce the federal budget to a trickle and return the money to where it belongs, the taxpayer.
Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
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Re: FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet
#10We should play whack-a-mole with fraud. We should ALSO reduce the federal budget to a trickle and return the money to where it belongs, the taxpayer.
Can we start with the military?