Telecom Giants Drag Their Feet on Broadband for the Whole Country

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5. Under the present telcom laws

you can't make them do anything they don't want to do.

Look into how we got universal power and telcom service and for that matter a once good highway system.

It takes the governments; local, state and federal to be both carrot and stick. The companies have to be allowed a reasonable profit while being committed to universal service. And there needs to be a plan that will reach the targets. Taking money and not using it for providing service where it is not profitable is a theft. Where the telcos invested they have a return. So if they are not going to serve the rest of us (read rural America) then they should return to money with interest.