1 edit | Which one is it? "Verizon's justification of course is that rural America is costly to wire. That doesn't mean rural America can't be profitable -- it's just not profitable enough, quickly enough for impatient Verizon executives and shareholders."
The same thing was said when Verizon first started FiOS, by the same people. Yet Verizon was willing to stick it out and go ahead and wait for the profits. Are you suggesting that now they aren't? It seems more likely to me that they've run the numbers, and know that there aren't any profits, and possibly not even break even, in rural broadband. I'm assuming they're in a position to know
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