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Americans Paid $400 Billion in Taxes & Internet Surcharges for Fiber Optic Upgrades that Never Came

3rd December 2017

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According to a fairly recent book (2015) called The Book of Broken Promises, the American people have been charged some $400 billion by telecom companies (at the insistence of government) for fiber optic upgrades that have not materialized.

2 Responses to “Americans Paid $400 Billion in Taxes & Internet Surcharges for Fiber Optic Upgrades that Never Came”

  1. RealRick Says:

    If I remember this right, in the Bond spy parody “In Like Flint”, at the end it turns out the real enemy of the world is the phone company.

  2. Tim of Angle Says:

    But they wanted to use the power of the government to Do Things Their Way. So the real enemy was cronyist government.