[durasell]

In the past 36 months the gubmint has funneled more than a billion dollars though the Department of Agriculture to boost high speed internet access to rural areas.

The money is given to private service providers to update their infrastructure.

[bad company]

In the past 36 months the gubmint has funneled more than a billion dollars though the Department of Agriculture to boost high speed internet access to rural areas. The money is given to private service providers to update their infrastructure.

You're not cheering me up with that.

[palmer]

In the past 36 months the gubmint has funneled more than a billion dollars though the Department of Agriculture to boost high speed internet access to rural areas.

Good? Bad? I don't get your point. They loaned 1.22B for 586,000 subscribers which is about $2k per subscriber. I have set up rural wifi broadband for considerably less than that. What the government funds is typically backward looking and laden with pork (free computers for subscribers, etc).