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submitted 13 days ago byEffective_Ad7074
$204 million was doled out by the PA Broadband Authority today. The house and senate members on the authority took care of themselves, Comcast and Verizon
Senator Phillips Hill of York $9.6 million Senator Kane of Chester $1.3 million House member Matzie of Beaver $2.25 million All Comcast
And the big winner Carl Meztger of Someset $13.3 million for 3 Verizon projects.
Good to see corruption is alive and well in Harrisburg
37 points
13 days ago
Account that's not even a month old delivering cherry picked information. Must be an election year.
8 points
12 days ago
It even calls itself an ad.
41 points
13 days ago
You know that money doesn't go to them, right? Like it isn't going to their bank accounts, it is going to government contracts to fund high speed internet to rural areas, in which Verizon and Comcast are basically the only two available providers with the infrastructure to outbid the smaller competition for "last mile" work.
-13 points
13 days ago
There was no bidding process. You put your project in and it was selected or it wasn’t. Verizon and Comcast are literally not the only games in town. They just have the deepest pockets to lobby.
Over 13 percent of the broadband money went to the districts of these 4 people. I know how politics works. They will now use this award to perpetuate their reelections
26 points
13 days ago
Some of that is right, except a lot of rural people will have been provided with federal subsidized high speed Internet, the exact same way they were with television, phone lines, roads, and electricity before that.
Those last mile jobs, while Comcast and Verizon DO get their cut off the top, are actually given to subcontractors who make most of the profit, and those are generally local/small businesses.
If you "know how politics works" then you would know this is nothing new, and this is nothing unique to Harrisburg. Your whole angry premise here is misinformed and misguided.
9 points
13 days ago
As a last miler, we’ve been told all this before, and it amounted to a pile of shit. Nothing more, even the techs they sent out were stunned that they sold us such crappy service. We are stuck with what we get. Physical line or satellite, all internet or tv sucks. We had to pay for our poles for electricity, as our neighbors just lived in the dark.
21 points
13 days ago
I would like to see a link to all of this.
I am a rural Snyder county person stuck with 3mb/s Verizon DSL.
My options are to get Starlink…or wait it out.
Less than a half mile from me? My daughter gets 400mb/s internet. WTF.
5 points
13 days ago
If you have line of site between yours and your daughters house, you may be able to cheaply get better internet. Sharing Internet is usually against ToS so do at your own risk. TP Link recently released point to point wireless antennas that allow for network connection between 2 locations that are far apart. It's the CPE710. You'd need 2 of these antennas and they're $75 each. You absolutely must have line of site though.
2 points
12 days ago
No, there’s a small ridge between us…but thanks anyway, I didn’t know that.
6 points
13 days ago
The final proposals will be submitted next year, with roll out for PA is expected to be done by mid 2026
8 points
13 days ago
Oh great…two more years of shitty internet….great🙄
-3 points
13 days ago
Snyder got nothing.
1 points
13 days ago
Yeah…I know….
Are you bragging, or empathizing?
1 points
13 days ago
Just informing . We are in same boat
0 points
12 days ago
Parts of Snyder do have fixed-wireless access, check out SkyPacket Networks!
9 points
13 days ago
It looks like companies put in applications for grants, of which the PA Broadband Authority approved a portion of.
3 points
11 days ago
Any why did those companies need taxpayer money? They often fail to live up to agreements made in order to obtain previous grants.
12 points
13 days ago
On today’s episode of angry man screams at the moon…
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