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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.
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:56AM (1 child)
Hey! Show some respect! Kansas won the Super Bowl!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @08:46AM
Americans are, um, Geographically challenged. Most could not, unless they are NPR reporters, identify Ukraine on a map, that is, a map with no labels, which some people happen to keep in their Evil Secretary of State Lairs. But the fact that Americans cannot identify Manhattan, which clearly is just downstream of Three Forks, in Montana, or Honolulu, which is in South Carolina, or even Athens in Georgia or Miami in Ohio, or Buffalo Wings which are not at all Buffalo meat parts. So, point being, Trump is really not any more stupid than his supporters, it is just that he is as stupid as his supporters, and he thinks that Button and Nipple are countries, like Africa. And Missouri City is obviously the capital of Missouri, just like Jersey City is the capital of Jersey, and New York is the capital of New York, and Nevada City is the capital of Nevada, despite being in California. What a fucking moron the President of the Fucked United States is. I would imagine Senators would be embarrassed enough to vote to remove his ass, and fine intellect with vast ignorance, from office.