 NOVA_GuyObamaCare Kills AmericansPremium
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| And I thought Cox Communications was bad... ...But they are nothing compared to Verizon. When Cox didn't keep its promise last year to have digital cable to 100% of Fairfax county, I thought that they needed to be severely punished. Unfortunately the Board of Supervisors down here didn't agree with me, and only fined them $2,000,000 (plus fines for each day after the target date that they don't deliver).
But this is amazing. Verizon made these promises, apparently with no intent to deliver on them. And then they go ahead and make stupid statements to the effect of being able to deliver 45Mbps speed to places like Altoona if someone wants to pay for it. Wake up Verizon. You made the agreement to deliver. The people of PA have already paid you through tax breaks and the like-- they shouldn't have to pay a second time to have that cable delivered. You should deliver it for free, and the RJ45 connection at the end of each cable should be gift-wrapped for the amount of money that PA has essentially given you.
If $2,100,000,000 doesn't pay for 45Mbps broadband to be delivered to every home, then I don't know what does. Again, it just goes to show how large companies like Verizon are corrupt and will stop at nothing to scam the government and the public. It once again proves how these companies put profits first, and the people they service last.
Verizon should now be forced by the state to implement this service to all of its residents, and operate the network for free to anyone in PA who wants to use it for the next several years. Barring this, Verizon should be forced to pay every penny of the $5,000,000,000 plus interest back to the state. They should then be forced to pay punitive damages for the lies that they told in an amount large enough to make things painful for the company.
[Edited the amount of money that Verizon stole from Pennsylvanians]
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| wait wait wait wait....
don't start tossing around this 5 billion dollar figure.
I just used that hypothetically in my post.
The actual figure is a little less then half that. Quite large, but lets keep the facts straight.
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NOVA_GuyObamaCare Kills AmericansPremium
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| Whoops.... You're right. The figure I'm seeing above is $2.1 billion.... But that still should be enough to pay for wiring the state, or at least a large part of it. (some of the state can probably go without wiring anyways, as I can't think of too many times I've been on trails throughout the Allegheny Forest and really cared about plugging my iPAQ in to check my email...  )
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| You also have to keep in mind that this is the money break that they've made SO FAR. They'll continue to get this break until at least half way through the next decade. You're talking at least 3-4 times more then the current figure over the next 10-15 years or so.
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