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Old 04-28-2014, 02:54 AM  
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
No, because these very same internet providers have been paid our tax dollars as subsidies in order to improve their backbones. Tax payers have already paid for fiber networks to our homes, but the companies took the money and ran, not delivering on their promises. Tax payers have greatly subsidized the networks these companies use to make profits with.

It's not like they built it all themselves on their own dime.
That's why I don't have high speed at one of my houses as no service is willing to run it even though it ends a few hundred yards away from me.
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