On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:11 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:27 -0700, Owen DeLong said: >> Yes, I find it quite "amusing" that I am paying additional fees on all >> of my telecommunications services to subsidize high speed PON networks >> in rural bumf*ck while I can't get anything like it in San Jose, California. > > That's OK, you're all in the same boat - the subsidized users can't get it > either. :)
So where are these "subsidies" going? I live in rural BFE where most of my neighbors are still dialing in, and the local providers have no $$ incentive to build out here. Greg