For decades, people in the US have been given a song and dance by the telecoms about how tax cuts, surcharges, and a long list of other expenses are necessary for telecoms to "invest" in infrastructure. The concessions are granted again and again, but the investments are never actually made. In all, US taxpayers have paid $400 Billion in taxes and Internet surcharges for fiber optic upgrades that never happened.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @05:26AM (1 child)
Apart from the MAFIAA?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @10:29AM
It's just that the Mafia has a much smaller, more variable jurisdiction than Uncle Sam.