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posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 03 2020, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the follow-the-money dept.

Ajit Pai promised faster broadband expansion:

2019 was the second straight year that Comcast lowered its overall cable capital expenditures (though Comcast's spending on line extensions and scalable infrastructure rose in 2018).

This wasn't supposed to happen, according to claims that ISPs and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai made in order to push through the repeal of net neutrality rules and other deregulatory measures. Pai, who just today released an 11-page list of his accomplishments as FCC chair, repeatedly argued that net neutrality rules caused broadband providers to reduce capital expenditures. After his net neutrality repeal took effect in June 2018, he claimed that the repeal and other FCC deregulation caused investment to rise.

But Comcast isn't the only major ISP cutting investment, as AT&T projects that it will reduce capital spending from $23 billion in 2019 to $20 billion in 2020. Charter Communications said in October that its capital expenditures excluding mobile services would total $7 billion in 2019, down from $8.9 billion in 2018. Verizon reported a small increase in capital expenditures in the first nine months of 2019.


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 03 2020, @06:37PM (10 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 03 2020, @06:37PM (#953228) Journal

    If you took your (government funded) meds, you could probably participate in a conversation without frothing at the mouth.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @06:59PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @06:59PM (#953241)

    Ha! I wish I had government funded healthcare like you parasitic death cultists get.

    Easy solution, support universal healthcare.

    Or, harder solution, stop being a hypocritical douchelicker.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:04PM (8 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:04PM (#953244)

      Didn't the Democrats already fix healthcare back when they controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House? What's the problem now?

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DECbot on Monday February 03 2020, @07:41PM (2 children)

        by DECbot (832) on Monday February 03 2020, @07:41PM (#953260) Journal

        The idiots voted for the terrible health care plan written by the Republicans.

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        • (Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday February 03 2020, @09:06PM (1 child)

          by Thexalon (636) on Monday February 03 2020, @09:06PM (#953292)

          And more recently, when the Republicans had control again, they very intentionally broke the plan the Democrats had voted in, so they could then go to the voters and complain about how much it sucked.

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          The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
          • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:11AM

            by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:11AM (#953400) Journal

            A plan that's working like a charm. All those same people on the DNC/GOP tag team will reelected again. SNAFU!

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:42PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:42PM (#953261)

        a) they had such control for 4 months
        b) again this isn't a partisan thing other than the GOP having lost all credibility
        c) plenty of DNC assholes are still against UH
        d) drop your bullshit and vote Sanders 2020 if you really want to help the US (you could be another russian troll doing the same thing as in 2016)

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @11:15PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @11:15PM (#953332)

          Your use of the "Russian troll" pejorative is ironic, since I've been assured by the sorts of people who are wont to use that phrase that Russia wants me to vote for Bernie.

          It's kind of funny how the idea of Democracy for so many is the freedom to vote for the single candidate they support, or to be labeled a Russian troll. Maybe the trolls are the ones who convinced you that everyone who disagrees with you is a Russian?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @12:48AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @12:48AM (#953938)

            I'm a scientist, I got with the numbers. Statistically you are more likely to be a Russian troll, or a subsidiary. It also matches your posting history, guess now is as good a time as any to let everyone know that The Mighty Buzzard's password security is garbage! That IP hash sure is neat, sock puppets abound!

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:22AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:22AM (#953403) Journal

        You mean when they passed Romneycare (look it up, it was based on his running of Massachusetts healthcare when he was in charge there)?

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      • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Tuesday February 04 2020, @12:43PM

        by Nobuddy (1626) on Tuesday February 04 2020, @12:43PM (#953522)

        They made the mistake of reaching across the isle in compromise, assuming republicans had the capacity to negotiate in good faith.

        That mistake will never happen again.