AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite.

  • RoabeArt [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    Ah, so that's why AT&T stopped fiber upgrades in my town in 2022 or last year. Which is disappointing to say the least, and I live on a main road too.

    Hopefully this won't lead to Spectrum (my current provider) shuffling their feet on implementing high split service, now that their main competitor is opting for inferior 5G home internet for half their customers. High split would allow for symmetrical upload/download and faster than gigabit speeds.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    Rememinder that as of 2015, the US taxpayer has given $400 billion to ISPs/TelCos on varying conditions boiling down to 'improve internet infrastructure and access', and they ... didn't.

    ... And no one ever held them accountable.

    http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BookofBrokenPromises.pdf

    Please remember that basically every large monolithic US corporation that currently exists got to their status by being hugely, absurdly subsidized by the US taxpayer, and the US taxpayer's reward is basically always worse service/product at increased cost.