said by Karl Bode :

Ding.

Ultimately In the past, Verizon will probably convince(ed) Uncle Sam Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to approve a half-baked plan, cooked up by Verizon lobbyists to give them billions in taxpayer dollars to use on limited rural deployment of next-gen networks. But nobody in the government will effectively track spending, and nobody will independently track Verizon deployment claims, and the problem of deployment service holes will continue.